My parents always said “show me your friends, plus I will show you your future.” It was a pretty powerful statement in my mind.
- I genuinely believe that that statement kept me from making various wrong choices when it came to picking friends.
I am so thankful that I have never had a acquaintance that lead me down the wrong path. Although I did not have any bad friends, I did have various crazy friends in my childhood. I have to confess that some of them were quite odd. I had one acquaintance who had a odd phobia of not having the a/c on in her room. If she did not have the a/c on, she would stat having a panic attack, then she kept the cooling system on 24/7, year round. My enjoyable friend and I lived way up north, so most of the year was not warm enough to even need to use an cooling system. She did not care though. She never turned her cooling system off, plus her siblings knew how much she could not stand sleeping without a/c. They would sneak in her room at night plus turn off the cooling system. It was genuinely a really unkind thing to do, however somehow, she lived through it. I can remember countless afternoons sleeping over her home plus cold all night long. I always brought extra blankets, however it was still so cold in her room that it was difficult to sleep. My family ended up moving, plus my enjoyable friend and I lost contact with that precious acquaintance of mine. I wonder if she still has to sleep with a/c some twenty-five years later.