Surround Yourself With

If we are ever to make progress in our lives, we must know when it is time to cut negative people out of our lives. As much as we want to love and help these people, we must recognize when it is time to let them go and move along with our own journeys. For we are who we surround ourselves with, and we must envelop ourselves in a network of people whom elevate and inspire us. Our compasses must always be pointed north. The company we keep must always feel uplifting and share similar aspirations as us. Even if we cannot find enough of these people, we must recognize that it is of greater risk to our own power and energy to stay attached to those who weigh us down than it is to venture out into the unknown abyss of potential loneliness. We must take the lessons we learned from these people and celebrate them, but then let go and allow them to continue on their own paths. But we certainly should not despair; for if we believe without a doubt that the positive company we desire to soon keep shall be ours, than so it shall be. We are not meant to stay stagnant; we are meant to evolve on our own enriching life journeys.  We must be like butterflies, who do not spend time conversing with the caterpillars they used to resemble, but rather fly in celebration of their evolution and life's progress. We should never look down upon the in-progress caterpillars as if we are better than them, because we remember where we used to be, and we must also never stay too long on the ground. We must fly away into greatness and magnificence in celebration of our own brilliant evolution. For we know in truth that everyone will be eventually become the butterfly that is his or her best self, but on his or her own time. We must release our past attachments and relationships that no longer serve us and begin anew.