Your company

There's this popular saying that I've always been against, maybe it's out of ignorance or I don't like how it is being said but now I agree with it, and the saying is "show me your friend and I'll tell you who you are". I've been against is it because I do say "what if you're friends with someone who does social vices and all, but you'll be the one to change the person for good since change is constant", but now I've realized that if you can't beat them, you'll join them. I'll be analyzing everything with a story.

Daniel who has been a straight A student and has been excelling perfectly in his academics, changed school suddenly because his parents changed location and hence Daniel has to follow them. In his new school, they also have a wonderful school settings, their laboratory are of high specs, well qualified teachers and they have everything a student will need in his academics.

But the first set of friends Daniel made were all students who are struggling with their classes and they have no interest to move higher in class, they're all well comfortable with their bad results and they also engage in drugs. Then Daniel was doing normal in his academics and he was coping despite that he's in a new learning environment. Unfortunately for him, he can't see the future if not he'd have changed the friends he was moving with because they were about to change him and do thing he never thought he'd ever do in his mortal life.

Daniel was trying to persuade them to read, he gave them access to the private garage his dad gave to him for his studies, so they would come and read after school and they'd all spend time together, but the so-called friends Daniel made started doing otherwise in his garage. They'd do drugs and kiss and play till the reading session is over, Daniel is always believing he's their messiah and he'll change them for good.

People started telling him to stay away from them but he won't listen because he sees himself as a good person but one fateful day, they told him to try a drug and they described how he'll use it, the first day he declined and told them never to try him with something like that ever again but the Devil never stops when he sets his eye on a target.

Another day, they just said it as a joke and he didn't say anything because they were joking and they left a piece of the drug on purpose, then he saw it when cleaning his garage after they all left. And he thought in his mind "what exactly is in this drug that they love so much, what if I try it and see what they feel so I can understand them better afterall they're my friends and they'll never poison me" and in that particular moment was when Daniel's life started drifting apart.

He then took the drugs and he felt like he was in cloud 9, he felt so high and was happy and shouting in his garage. The next day, he didn't mention it at school, he just acted normal. At their usual meeting spot in Daniel's garage, he opened up to them and they told him to try it so he'll understand them more and more, then he took another one and another one and another one till he forgot himself and got lost in drugs. Then he started performing poorly in school that the principal had to call him and talk to him, but all was to no avail, they contacted his parents but nothing changed yet.

Daniel got fed up of his parent advice daily and left their house and he left school. That was how Daniel life drifted apart and he became a nuisance.

Author's message

There's no such thing as a messiah in a friendship, it's okay to actually try, but when you see you can't change them, you leave because you'll slowly start becoming like them and you'll do things you'll hate. Slowly you start becoming what you hate, now I truly believe that if you can't beat them, you'll join them. Know the company you keep and engage in positive conversation because evil conversation corrupts good manner. Thank you.