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Surround Yourself With Success

Sometimes it's not just the things you do that matter, but who you decide to surround yourself with.

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Surround Yourself With Success

It takes time to make friends and to grow with them over the years. Much like any relationship you make it will develop itself over time, it may have some edges to be smoothed out here and there. Ultimately the purest relationships take time. It can be made up in an instant of meeting someone. If that were case the case we would have less problems in today's society. Unfortunately though that is not the case these days. No it is certainly not a spontaneous course that just all of sudden happens. Mostly due to the fact that with each connection you make with someone you are building up certain bonds in trust, cooperation, communication, empathy, and understanding of one another. As days go by it is certainly a glory to behold when you get to look back at all those events you shared with each other. From the good to the bad. Of course that is not always the case in some people. For the humans species the largest and most daunting desire is our need to connect. We tend to get lonely or misplaced within our social environment due to a divine likeness towards a certain group, mutual respect towards people(s) actions, and having similar paths with where they are going. Now it is by no means bad in any way to interact with these types of people. Eventually you will have to anyway and come to some opinion about whether negative or positive. Just because you talk with them doesn't mean you have to generally like them in anyway, or be apart of their lives just for the sake of mere attention. People have been known though to stick by certain people who are otherwise toxic in their lives for a broad number reasons. The ultimate implications of this though could be devastating for your future goals in life. It normally comes down to mere appearance at times with who you associate yourself with. Booker T. Washington once had a saying about having bad people surround your life:

"Associate yourself with people of good quality, for it is better to be alone than in bad company."

Now the distinct message that can be taken from this is simply surround yourself of equal or more worth, instead of looming around people who can't seem to get things together or constantly be burden. Of course nobody wants to cut strings too quick because of the uncertainty that you may not find someone who is of the divine quality that you are searching for. It is no better though having to latch yourself to people who will only drag you down. We all want to be successful but how successful is entirely up to you. Success comes at a sacrifice for something else. Only for the absolute best outlook for yourself and others as well.

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