Seek Better Friends
The right people will convince themselves to hang around you.
“There’s nothing worse than a wolf befriending sheep. Avoid false friendship at all costs. If you are good, straightforward, and well meaning it should show in your eyes and not escape notice.” - Marcus Aurelius
It’s human to want connection. You crave people who see you, who listen, who make you feel alive again after long workdays and melancholic episodes. You meet them, and for a while, it feels right- you laugh over drinks, they share fun stories, they bring small gifts, attention, more drinks. You start to think you’ve found your circle. But then the cracks appear. The same mouths that praised you begin to talk behind your back. The same friends who once cheered for you start diminishing your wins. They envy you quietly, abandon you at the slightest of troubles, or worse- influence you subtly, until you wake up one day and realize you’ve become a version of yourself that you barely recognize.
You tell yourself this is just how people are- that …
