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Surrounding Yourself With Positive People

Surround yourself with positivity, not negativity, to improve life.

Kasey Baltz
Oct 26, 2016
College of Charleston
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The people you encounter in everyday to day life affect you in certain ways without you even realizing. Even that uber driver, or just a stranger that maybe opens the door for you, all play a part in who you are as a person today. Each act in life affects you. This is why it is essential to surround yourself with positive people on a daily basis, that not only are there for you, but have similar aspirations, motivations, and the effect of making you feel comfortable and positive in their presence. It is hard to find these essential people to surround yourself with and it can take a lifetime to find your core support system. As you go through life you meet and find new things about yourself every day. Once you have found who you are, finding these people will enhance not only your life but you as a person and your happiness. As I am finding people with similar interests as me, and surrounding myself with them, I find the world to become much smaller. It allows you to feel like you can conquer the world, and it gives you the power and confidence to actually follow my dreams and become successful with who I want to be as a person.

If you do not have positive people in your life, CUT them out! If you find yourself around negativity, and people that don't understand or support you or make you feel like you're not yourself, then leave it. It may be harder than it sounds, I know that encountering blurry lines with a friend, or a boyfriend, is the last thing anyone wants. Having a person in your life that doesn't understand you as a person or your aspirations, and questions or challenges you doesn't do anything but hold you down. Friends, family, and relationships, etc should be there for you, to support you and build you up. If you have that one negative friend in your life that picks on you, makes you feel different, or doesn't help you out, even if you've always been friends with them, if it doesn't make you happy then take time away from it. Taking time away from negative surrounds makes you feel 100% better!

If you surround yourself with the people that make you feel your happiest and in your most pure identity, then you are doing it right!

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