Just like every other teenager in America, "Duck Dynasty" star and "Live Original" teenager Sadie Robertson has experienced the pitfalls of peer pressure.
On her Instagram account (@legitsadierob), the reality star shared a short video taken during last year's "Live Original" event. The video shows Sadie sitting on a chair as she talks about her desire to fit in with the "cool" crowd.
"I didn't listen to my own voice at night because I was with the cool people. But what even is cool and what defines it?" she asks. "Cool is having the strength and the courage to be yourself when everyone around you wants you to do or say what they are doing or what they are saying."
Sadie explains that she is sharing the video because she knows a lot of people can relate to what she has experienced. "Sometimes we betray ourselves for our 'friends' because we want so desperately to fit in with the 'cool people,'" she says.
"Let me tell you. I have been there, but it's a long hard road trying to keep up with people's opinions. Be yourself, and decide today to start making the right decisions. You never know the influence you could begin to have. Lots of people want to get out, [but] no one wants to be the one to lead. Go ahead and lead," she urges.
There will be another Live Original Tour this year, which starts on Sept. 22 in Dallas, Texas and ends on Oct. 16 in Nashville, Tennessee.
Sadie will be accompanied by her brother John Luke and his wife Mary Kate, cousins Reed and Cole Robertson, Reed's fiancée Brighton Thompson, as well as "God's Not Dead" filmmaker Max Zoghbi and his wife Bonnie Kate. The only one missing in this year's line-up is Sadie's ex-boyfriend Blake Coward, whom she broke up with last March.
