Those who you surround yourself with, better be good company.
That’s something you’ve probably heard growing up. I’ve heard this phrase or phrases similar to it for as long as I can remember. The funny part is, I’ve realized the value of those words the older I’ve gotten.
I always want to believe in the good in people. I want to believe that we all are good at heart. When it comes to friends or a relationship, I’ve always wanted to people that the person and myself had each other’s best interests at heart. As much as this is often true, it’s not always.
Unfortunately, we live in a dog-eat-dog world, where people are so vicious and out for themselves that they will literally do anything and everything to succeed or be on top. Anything. This includes some of the people around us that we think are “for us,” but in secret, they are actually “against us.”
That’s thing I’ve come to realize the most is that being that this is a very capitalistic society, people are crazy and vicious. When people betray us, it can be heart-breaking and shocking. It can a huge toll on how you see people and how you view the world. I guess that’s where I am right now after a recent incident. Yet, I’m not allowing that one incident to change my perception of the good that I believe still exists as well as the people around me who are trustworthy and for me.
Too often, we fight against everything that comes against us. One of the most important lessons that I’ve realized is that we need the bad times as much as we need our good times. We need terrible people in our life, just as much as we need the good people. Sound crazy? Yeah, I know. But it’s true.
Without the negative people in our lives, we wouldn’t learn who really matters and who never did. We wouldn’t know how strong we are and gain valuable knowledge. We wouldn’t become better people and be prompted to reach our highest potential. We need the bad situations as much as we need the good situations. In many ways, it’s like they even each other out.
Trust is very important to me, as I am sure it is for you. It’s the importance of this trust that is consistently helping me to re-evaluate relationships to see if they are really worthwhile, re-evaluate people to see if they really are for me, and most importantly, to be thankful and hold dearly the people who have been a rock to me and right by myself throughout many things in my life.
Though people may prove to be something other than what I expected, I’m not going to sweat it and you shouldn’t either. See it, accept it, cut them, and move on. Life is too short to deal with people who cause drama or to try to fully understand why they did what they did. I’ve learned that nothing can keep us from our destiny. Without the betrayers, haters, back-stabbers, and critics, we couldn’t learn, couldn’t become better, and couldn’t become all that we were truly capable of becoming. Keep moving forward.
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