The power of friendship

"Show me your friend and I'll tell you who you're " that's a popular saying,  and that's the rock hard truth.  The kind of friends you keep,  the kind of people around you more or less defines you. They could either push you to bring the best out of yourself and put you in the right path of achieving your dreams or lead you to the very deep end. There are countless stories of promising young folks who couldn't maximize and fulfill their potentials because of negative influence.  A bad friendship is more deadly than cancer because nothing hurts so much than seeing people who were made for the top, people made to make differences for one reason or other fail to get there.  I'll share a personal experience,  the fall of the year I graduated high school,  the fall of 2013, I had to move up country for my Cambridge A level studies.  It was something I dreaded because I've never at any point been seperated from my family,  but now I'll be going away for months,  it killed me. To make things worse,  I absolutely knew no one and for a couple of weeks after I got there,  I kept to myself, not saying a word to anyone.  One day,  after school had closed,  I was studying in one of the most secret places I could find, when suddenly I saw a girl walk towards me, I didn't read much into it so, I basically continued reading. To my greatest surprise, the fair  pretty looking lady was stood right in front of me,  she introduced herself to me, I mumbled a greeting.  Apparently,  she had resumed a week before,  she asked if she could join me and study together.  I concurred, and believe me that was the best decision I've ever made,  it turned out the girl was really really smart,  smarter than I ever thought perhaps even smarter than me,  but she really brought out the best in me, I had to really read a lot to keep up with her. Ever since that day, we were like co-factors,  always together,  and it reaped it's rewards, after about 10 months,  we took the exams and excelled,  and right now,  she's a medical student in one of the leading universities in Philippines.  We still keep in contact and I always let her know how glad I was that I met her. That's the most productive friendship I've ever had. If I hadn't met her, perhaps I wouldn't have done as well as I did.  You should be mindful of the company you keep and remember if it's not adding value to your life,  it's got absolutely no business in your life.