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15 years ago
Is it better to be around people who are a really bad influence on you or to be alone?
I ask this question is all seriousness because the last six months have been very eye opening for me. Back around christmas I made some life changing decisions that cut all those people out of my life that were draging me down (both physically and mentally) but now i'm realizing that in doing so I've pretty much cut 9/10's of my "friends" out of my life. Honestly I feel like an asshole (and I was to some people) but I am starting to miss some of these people... even if they were a bad influence. I will also admit that some people who were no included in the above mentioned group of people got cut out because of relationships they have with those people. It was an all or nothing change and I guess i'm might be starting to regret it.
I ask this question is all seriousness because the last six months have been very eye opening for me. Back around christmas I made some life changing decisions that cut all those people out of my life that were draging me down (both physically and mentally) but now i'm realizing that in doing so I've pretty much cut 9/10's of my "friends" out of my life. Honestly I feel like an asshole (and I was to some people) but I am starting to miss some of these people... even if they were a bad influence. I will also admit that some people who were no included in the above mentioned group of people got cut out because of relationships they have with those people. It was an all or nothing change and I guess i'm might be starting to regret it.
I'm sorry I don't really ahve good advice for you, but if your old friends were dragging you down, then I doubt that much has changed since you left them.
But you know me, I have the horrible habit of just isolating myself and i really just have to hope my friends understand that and hope we can pick up where we left off down the road a bit. You were always better at making and keeping friends. I know that if the ones you've cut out truly needed to be, you'll find new and better ones down the road. Life can be lonely, but sometimes, that's just the way it has to be for a while. But by no means should it be permanent.