Hanging out with the Wrong Crowd

"Keep away from people who try to belittle your ambitions. Small people always do that, but the really great ones make you feel that you, too, can become great." Mark Twain

We teach our children to be careful about who they hang out with, and we take a dim view of their friends who we feel might be a bad influence. But you know, that really never ends. As adults, we need to take care of who we spend time with, too. Inevitably we become like those around us. Everyone has an influence on us, no matter if we are fourteen or forty. Marshall McLuhan said, "We become what we behold."

How about you? Do you surround yourself with people who help you become all that you can be? Or have you been hanging out with the wrong crowd?

Susan