Your associations will control your life....

Welcome the nice people into your life...

Throughout my life I have always heard sayings like "choose your friends carefully" or the like. I like many always took this to be choosing people who would lookout for you and be a good friend to you. And I think this is what a lot of people mean from this phrase. But it should not be! 

I'm just throwing it out there we need to rethink this. See friends might look out for you and be there fore you BUT  are they a positive influence on your life?

Over my time I have made and lost many friends and have a collection I still stay in touch. Interestingly these friends I still keep in touch with have mostly come to a similar way of thinking to myself, which I will expand on momentarily. As I keep saying to you I have recently moved and am in the process of making friends in my new area. Having had a lot of time alone in the last few months I have reflected on many things over and over again, in a good way though.

My conclusion and but no means my final thought or even any sort of gospel!  

It seems obvious but if your  friends are people who have a negative outlook on life this will have a detrimental effect on you. As I was saying prior, the friends I seem to have kept in touch with are ones who emanate a positive vibe. We have progress in similar ways of thinking; for example the benefits of positive thinking and being in nature. Generally I feel good when I speak to these people, if I am down they lift my mood. This is what a friend should do, yes lift your mood. Anyone who lowers you mood you should not really associate with! Whoa I hear you say thats easier said than done and I know. My sister lowers my mood just entering the room, unfortunately she has a lot of issues and won't take advice. This result in us rarely talking or seeing each other but that a different story.

Finding people who are on your wave length, share your  interest and are positive is not small task. I have kind of been thrown into it recently so know this only too well. It a slow and to be honest lonely process but well worth it. For example there are many colleagues at work who have invited me on piss up nights but if they are not vibrating of a positive level then I don't want to partake in the negative or narcissistic conversations. Now don't get me wrong I not some stuck up git, I will do work doo's and the like just not regular random nights. But have join groups and I am finding connections and people on my wave length. This is the key I will benefit more from these relationships than one on convenience. This way its taking longer but I am meeting such diverse and interesting people and in the end I will benefit by having a selection of positive people giving cracking energy around me..

I have myself noticed a massive change in my mood an life since I have start to associate with people with a positive outlook and energy. Although it not just people of course its all you actions and associations. Not negative platforms like Facebook; focusing on positive interaction on Steemit. Don't think my life is all prefect and i've discovery the holy grail, I am quite lonely at the moment but the connections I am making are positive and feed good energies making them all the more valuable. In conclusion then just from my experience, surrounding yourself with positive people and cutting out as much negative interactions that I can has improved my outlook and general mood ten fold.

Brining me to this weeks Art...

This is a simple piece that depicts the good in society. Wangari Maathai the first African woman to receive the Nobel Peace Prize back in 2004, Ayrton Senna the F1 driver and a manga girl. These to me represent the good in human nature,  we need to aim to replicate this. However this will not be done if we don't associate with the good people.  Then only and only then will the world change and we won't all make it to be as worthy as these examples but we might just meet in the middle:

 Also by me: 

Stunning walk through my village marred by some sad news ... Act what I preach

Naked Feet In The Woods...

The Kama Gods have been appeased....