Jemma Spike

a very sad movie, a very happy movie, a very scary movie.

And they would have the other friend like watching them and they had them tied up to all this like cool, fancy equipment.

And what they would find was that even though there were no words being spoken, even though the friend was not watching the movie, just watching their own friend's reaction impacted their emotional state, impacted how they were responding in a completely separate environment.

The emotions, the mood, the personalities, the attitude, the mindset of your friends is contagious.

It's called social osmosis.

Well, that's kind of what I like to call it.

Social osmosis, which is that like being around somebody will imbue passion.

parts of you with parts of their character.

That is like a deep responsibility of our friends, a deep responsibility of our friends.

And in us choosing our friends is to choose people whose influence on us is going to be for good and whose character life we can look at and say, I genuinely admire you.

And I admire what you're doing so much so that like,

I want a piece of that.

Like, I want that to influence me.

You know, do a friendship order at some point in your 20s.

Look around at your friends and just, not in a callous way, not in a cruel way, but just really ask yourself, like, are we what's best for each other?

And people have bad weeks.

People have bad months.

people have bad years.

Like I've definitely had a few bad years.

Um, so I'm not saying cut out all your friends who are like downers, but to really consider whether either of you, both of you are getting what you deserve out of friendship and don't be afraid at some stage to be like, Hey, no, like I want more for myself and I want more out of the people who I choose to spend my time around.