Every individual whom you surround yourself with has a great or a worse influence on your personal life and successes, positively or negatively. Your personality and behavior also has effects on others. Identify your companies, whether they are worthy or not; choose friends whom you spend most of your time with. Make friends wisely and take care of who you share your goals and successes with. Know who you are and take care of others as you do to yourself. In your everyday life you are surrounded by a variety of people. As the research proved that you are the average of five people you spend the most time with. In fact, there is an old proverb that reads, “Show me your friends and I will tell you who you are.”
Even though having friends is significant, being cautious whom you surround yourself with is also important. Some of the people you encounter with on a daily basis bring contentment to your life, and their loving presence nurtures and encourages you in order to work hard and thrive. On the other hand, others have the opposite effect, draining of your energy, making you feel weary and exhausted through continuous emotional intimidation and …show more content…
"As iron sharpens iron, so one man sharpens another," (proverb 27:17). Despite giving everyone the opportunity to be a friend, share your dreams and goals only with those who value them as much as you do. As a college student you may struggle with different types of pressure which may originate from academics, major choice, career choice, financial aid, and peer pressure. From all other sources, peer pressure is the utmost stressful; you may end up into undesirable peer pressure because of poor stress management, poor decision making skills, and fear of