1 August 2012
Call me old fashioned or stubborn, but the idea of associating with immoral people is disgusting. It seems people nowadays are capable of partitioning people into categories of friends or acquaintances based loosely on similar interests and fun-factor. These people can knowingly associate with morally corrupt people as long as they're fun to be around it's acceptable. People can even turn around and gossip about the very person they'll hang out with the following day!
This just strikes me as pointless. This is behavior that makes absolutely no sense to me. It's two-faced, gutless behavior. If you don't like someone, don't associate with them. So they're fun to be around, so they like the same things you do - if they're going home and beating their spouse what kind of message are you sending by being their friend? They tell you they steal, lie, cheat, subsequently destroying people's lives even if only for a little bit - and you can sweep that under the rug just to have "someone" to hang out with?
You can tell a lot about a person by the company they keep. Life is too precious so why not fill it with genuinely good people? Friends should be people you can support - not silently dismiss their disgusting behavior all in the name of friendship.
People call me picky and say that I don't have many friends for a reason. And they're right. The few friends I do have are amazing people who have moral standards, good hearts and treat people with honesty, kindness and respect. I surround myself with optimism and wholeheartedness, with ambition and courage. I eschew the immoral, the overtly careless and inconsiderate.
Call me judgemental, call me stubborn - but I know the people I have in my life are truly good people.
The Company You Keep • Opuss № I