Good Role Models

[Markme]

Gertrude Stein said, “Everybody gets so much information all day long that they lose their common sense”. There is also a quote whom I not sure who was the first to say it, but, “birds of a flock fly together.” “If you lay with a dog, you are bound to get fleas.” What it is that I am trying to convey to you, is that you must choose the crowd you hang out with carefully, as you will conform to their standards.

I spent the majority of my life hanging out with crowds that were filled with individuals that did not have the same morals or principles as I. As a result, I’ve led myself astray more times then I could count. I hung out with the class clowns, who made me become a class clown. I hung out with junkies and I too became a junkie. I hung out with dumb folks, and my grades showed that I too became dumb. Why was this? It was because the crowd I would hang out with found it acceptable to disrupt class, not to study and found it acceptable to do drugs on a daily basis.

I always had dreams to be successful and to me being successful meant being financially independent and a person who does good things in this world. Though the crowd I chose to surround myself with only hindered that. I got sidetracked and then spent time trying to find the road I once traveled. In the long run I’ve learned many lessons in life, and though that is wonderful, I’ve also fell behind.

It is important to hang out with individuals that you want to aspire too. It is a very smart strategic plan in fact. Like the first quote I mentioned, you learn from the people you are around, and you loose yourself because you conform to their standards. If you do not want to be like someone, why hang out with him or her? By hanging out with them, they become influential in your life, whether you like to admit it or not. I never saw myself as an intelligent guy, so I didn’t hang out with intelligent people. That right there did not help me in achieving one of my goals in life, which was to be smart.

By Nomad