Your Choice

Choose to be around people who make you better.

Choose to be around people who push you to do more, to be more.

Choose friends who accept you as you are, but encourage and ask you to meet your potential because they see in you what you don't see in yourself.

Choose people who will listen to your worst days and celebrate your best days.

Choose people who value all you have been created to be.

Choose a friend who can handle it when you fall.  They know when to pick you up and when to tell you to get up.

I have these friends.  To these friends, I say "Thank you!"  Thank you for inviting me to join you.  Thank you for listening, thank you for sharing.  Thank you for being real and seeing the real in me.

You don't have to continue to give yourself to those who don't know you, discourage you or ignore you.  Give your time and energy to those who value you as you are and invest in them the same.

My mom has a poster that says it well:

Don't walk in front of me, I may not follow.

Don't walk behind me, I may not lead.

Just walk beside me and be my friend.

When it comes to the people you surround yourself with, you have a choice.