Did you ever race into a public toilet that smelt so bad you wanted to choke? But you were so desperate to go to the bathroom that you had no choice. Did you notice something ? By the time you left five minutes later, it didn’t smell quite so bad!
And what if you accidentally locked yourself in there for an hour? You’d be saying, “What smell?”
What’s the principle here? That we get used to whatever environment we’re in.
If you don’t smoke, and no one around you smokes, you never even think of smoking. But if all your friends smoke, and you hang out in smoky bars, you get used to it. Sooner or later you’re smoking!
If your friends tell lies, in the beginning it worries you. After a while, you get used to the fact that some people tell lies. Hang out with them long enough and you begin telling lies.
Hang out with miserable people, you become miserable – and you think it’s normal! Mix with critical people, you become critical – and you think it’s normal.
If you hang out with friends who are happy and motivated, then you become happy and motivated – and you think that is normal.
Don’t kid yourself that you aren’t affected by your friends.
If your family or friends are negative and miserable, then you will need to find some positive, happy friends. Somewhere in your life, you must have some positive company – or the pessimists will drag you down – and you won’t even know it’s happening.
In a nutshell:
Every day we are affected and infected by the people and attitudes around us. Sometimes we need to take action – or change friends – while we can still say, “Something smells around here!”
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