I am going to start this post with some questions I want you to answer within yourself.
What is friendship to you?
Do you think it really matters, who you decide to move around with?
Have you realized that the type of people you move with, have a way of controlling your life?
Hello dear friends, I am saying you are welcome to my blog once again and I must confess that I feel very excited to have you around.
Friendship is a really strong bond if you will agree with me, while growing up, good and watchful parents get really bothered about the type of friends that we move with because they know that those friends could either help us become better people or become very worse individuals.
I have heard some people say that they can decide to move with anyone they want without getting influenced, they believe that they have a strong backup that will make them never make them get influenced even if they move with the most negative people available.
Yes, they may be right but for how long do you think the protective cover will hang over your head, for how long do you think that you will not feel left out and begin to do the things they do that you promised yourself never to do, for how long will you sit back and watch them call you a weakling and you obviously have nothing to do about it.
My opinion about this issue of friendship is that you carefully watch the type of people you want to move with, be sure that they have a compactable character with yours, be sure that their way of life is something that you can cope with. Check all these qualities, my friend, before you finally get into the bond of friendship.
Do not just make friends because you are lonely, that is going to be a very big mistake on your path, rather make friends because these people are those who will compliment you and bring out the best in you.
When you constantly move with people who are only interested in what you have to offer, who are basically interested in collecting all that you have and you have worked for, you will realize that in no time you will become empty.
Make your intentions about life very clear, set standards for yourself, you do not move with just anybody. Whosoever is coming into your life must have something to add and not just come here to play games or destroy you.
Choose your friends carefully, let them know that you have rules and principles guiding your life remember you are not just anybody, you are a royalty.
But about those you started with, who have always been there for you all the way to the top, never let them out of your sight.
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REGARDS FROM @gbenga
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Friendship is that relationship in which you add value to the lives of each other. If a friend does not add value to you he cannot be a true friend, drop him/her.
thanks for this lovely advice.
When choosing friend,it is adviced to choose wisely. It is better to choose those that will add value to your life than those that will destroy your life.
well said. Thanks for coming around
Show me your friends and I will tell you who you are! Birds of the same feathers flucks together! A friend in need is a friend in deed! All these are slogans or adages used to warn about good or bad friends. I follow and upvote you.
thank you@comrade.
Its really true. I agreed with your idea.
Thanks
We need great friends to grow. In this steemit platform, it is all about making friends to support one another. Thanks for the great post and I will upvote you as a friend!
Thanks for the upvote.
I agree with you bro. You got my upvote
Thanks
Thanks for sharing @gbenga
Thanks for coming around
I don't take my friends for a joke and I don't choose friend base on reputation. I only walk with friends that I can more knowledge from them. That is one of the things that keeps me moving
You are right bro!!
The kind of friends you roll with can help or Mar your success, when you keep good friends they motivates you, friends that are always there for you when you need them, friends that support not the kind of friends that doesn't want good for you
Thanks for the great advice.
@gbenga
we are so proud of you on this issue of making friends. In my honest appraisal, I just think like beholds like. We see people sometimes the way we see ourselves.
It is a general belief that like birds flock together. Yes, like you mentioned our friends can either make us or mar (destroy) us....the choice is personal.
That's my take>
@incometips
Thanks a lot, I appreciate.
It’s funny how my friends are junkies, I just never got around to making ideal perfect friends..the ones I have, I love them with all their shortcomings, seeing beyond their negatives is what I call true friendship, at least as long as I don’t let myself be influenced
We all have our shortcomings, that is the more reason why we need to move with people who will make us improve everyday.
But we still have to try and improve others too, or who’ll improve bad people? Good friends I guess..
At first affmter seeing the questions at the beginning, I was expecting to read about 900words or something long but behold I first scrolled through it was short them it motivated me to read :-D
And I just learnt something new from this post this Sunday morning.
Well written friend/sir
Happy Sunday too
Sometimes it does not have to be necessarily too long but the lives that it can impact and the lesson that we can all learn from it is what is really important to me.
Thank you!!
In one of Suli's poem he said, "either you like it or not, friends can either do two things to you: they either push you forward or push you backward. "
Friends don't leave you even. They don't leave you the way they meet you. The best thing is to choose carefully who we walk with.
You are very correct, thanks for coming around
You're welcome boss...
Well said boss. The words of the elders are words of wisdom.
Thanks Sir
Friendship is a bond, no one gets in without being influenced, therefore, we should be careful to make right friends, make friends better than you so that you become better with them, also make friends that you’re better and make them better with you.
@gbenga, I must confess that this post of yours is excellent!
Keep it up, thanks for being a friend.
Thanks a lot, I really appreciate
Thanks for sharing this...
It is really true that friends influence you..
I can remember when a friend actually wanted to take me out of the laid down rules I had for myself.
So I had to set my records straight and hold to my principles..
So choosing good friends really matters..