Watch Your Surroundings

Whether you want to believe it or not, the people that you surround yourself with are a direct reflection of who you are. Not only are they a subconscious reflection, but they represent you in public as well.

Think about it... Let's say you introduce your friend to me and you introduce them as 'your friend'. If that friend proceeds to be ignorant, inconsiderate, insulting and unmannerly, it is only expected of me to be under the assumption that you often carry yourself in that same way. Even if I have never seen you act this way, your acceptance of such behavior is just that... acceptance of that behavior. One can only assume that you have similar underlying traits. How else would the two of you match up as friends?
If you constantly proclaim that your close friends are "fake" or "untrustworthy", odds are so are you.

But... If these friends do not accurately represent your own personal persona, than why are they your 'friends'? Why surround yourself with characteristics that you would never allow from yourself?

Our friends are supposed to bring out the best in ourselves. You can never reach your prime potential when you place yourself around constant influential reminders of who you are not supposed to be. Free yourself from those social restrictions. Those associated restraints. The key to success, whatever success may be in your eyes, is surrounding yourself with the right group of people. The most successful celebrities, businessmen, politicians, etc., all have a team around them that they can trust and that bring the best out of them.

It's now that time for me to take my own advice. There are too many people in my life that for now can be considered a part of my circle of friends. It is an ever-growing circle that in all honesty should be ever-shrinking. Or at least fairly stagnant. I will now be taking the proper steps to rid myself of some of these harmful people.

So before you go around calling someone a 'friend', remember, watch your surroundings. Not only can the people closest to you hurt you, but they can cause you to hurt yourself as well.


Live, love & learn!
-The King