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Today's
Meditation:
Sometimes
it may seem awkward trying to analyze the effect that our
friends and acquaintances have on us. At times it
can seem to be too judgmental a thing to do, too harsh an
exercise. But all of us have experienced watching
other people being brought down by the people they choose
to hang around with, and it could be useful sometimes if
we were to take a step back from our own situations and
try to look at them objectively. How are the people
in my life affecting me? And if the answer to that
question is "poorly," then what do I need to do
to fix the situation to make it healthy once more?
Other
people affect me, and I have to admit that I've spent more
time with negative people than I would have liked to
spend. Sometimes I've been around people who have
brought me down in significant ways, and it's taken me far
too long to recognize what was happening and find other
people who would affect me more positively to spend time
with.
What
do the people in your life have you becoming? If you
spend another ten years with the same people, where will
you be ten years from now? If the answer is that
you'll be a more compassionate, more caring, more giving
person, then you're probably around people who are good
for you. If your answer is that you'll be wealthy
enough to be financially independent and completely out of
debt, and still a caring and compassionate person, then
that's great, too.
But
if your answer is something less than you are now, if you
don't like the answer that you see, then you'll want to
consider changing the people you're with. After all,
not everyone we meet is destined to be an intimate friend,
even if sometimes we pursue friendships for reasons other
than mutual benefit. If someone you know brings you
down, then just how will you be able to lift up someone
else who needs your support?
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