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that's not a real friend they don't have your best interests at heart a wise man once said they not like us they not like us they not like us and i remember thinking about this quote being like how genius is that because there have been so many moments in my life where i thought they not like us they're not like me when in reality You are them. Okay, what am I waffling about?
This is, what does this mean? It means you are your friends. You are the people you hang around with consistently. You are the person that you surround yourself with. When you're young, you have the time to do things. You can afford the time to mess around with your friends, to work a job that you don't really give a sigma about, doesn't really matter.
You have the time to get experiences and do things, right? It's great. But if you're surrounded by people who are going to pull you into experiences that aren't good for you, that's gonna mess you up bad. Think about it. Are the people in your life that you're surrounded by really good for you? Because you are them. You are them. No, no, I'm my own thing. No, you're not.
Not when you're in a group. You are them. You are the people you associate yourself with. No, I'm completely my own thing. Not if you spend like every day with them. And I'm not saying that you gotta cut people out. But you have to really examine if the person that you think is your friend is your friend,
Or are they kind of pulling you into some weird situations and you're kind of like, that's odd. I don't like this. I kind of need to distance myself. Because I've been in groups where, quite frankly, the people there didn't have the best interests for me. It was transactional. I had the loot that they wanted. I had the gold scar. And they had the slurp juice. And there's a difference.
There's a difference. There's a difference. but you are them at the end of the day. You are them. So many people, so many good people in this life get caught up in the wrong crowd. And I've had friends who I've tried to pull out of things. I've tried to be like, what are you doing? You are so much more than this. You are so much more than your hometown friend group.
You could be out here doing big things. But they get this, but they don't do anything about it. So what if you realize that your friends that you're around, they're not the people you want to be around? It's a great realization to have, but it's also a hard-hitting one. Because think about it. You spend so much time with people. You get to know them.
Part of you is kind of like, I don't want to just cut people out. It's rough. It's rough. Don't get me wrong. But what I've learned in my life is some people you have to love from a distance. You got to keep them at a distance because you have to put your priorities first. If they're with genuine intention, because if someone is your friend, they want the best for you, period.
There's no if and or buts. They want the best for you. And if they get upset at you because you're trying to improve, you're trying to change, you're trying to be a better person and you want to spend more time around people who you want to aspire to be like, that's not a real friend. They don't have your best interests at heart. Now there's a difference because it's tricky.
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