Bad Friends Ruin Your Life.

    BY Vic Odarve

Bad friends do influence your life negatively. They can alter your view of the world by changing your perception and turning you into a different person, and they can bring a tremendous change to your character, lifestyle, manners, and actions, and eventually destroy your life.

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While you seek friends for support and encouragement during bad times, find enrichment and guidance in your life’s journey, and enlightenment of your soul, bad friends can alter your view of the world, change the way you look up things in life, and develop you into a different person. Unknowingly, you usually meet them at social gatherings. People in the upper class of our society usually meet bad friends at parties, religious and civic organizations, political acquaintances, and other forms of activities among society’s bigwigs.

Influence from bad friends is powerful and it is more serious for the rich and famous. Take the case of Ruby; a beautiful woman in her early 50's who established her name by making friends and holding important positions in well-known social organizations. With her friends, she found a connection to influential lawmakers, amassed wealth and became famous, and acted as a conduit for graft and corruption. Aware of her impending arrest by the government for her role, she left the country without any traces. But things go differently for her. She was troubled. She could not sleep and eat well. A few months later, she returned as a government witness in a pork barrel scandal that implicated several senators and other famous personalities. Being haunted by her own conscience and why she turned as a government witness against her former friends, she concluded by saying, "I don’t want to die with 110 million countrymen hating me. I don’t want my grandchildren to be ashamed of me, so I felt I had to do something, and I must correct my mistake, and I can’t possibly right a wrong with another wrong. " That’s it. She regretted what she had done. Bad friends influenced and eventually ruined her life.

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Bad friends also bring a tremendous change in your behavior, lifestyle, manners, and actions. By keeping in the company and hanging around with bad friends in your work areas, offices, meetings, and other functions, you are strongly connected with their common objectives, likes, and point of view, and gossiping activities. You could not feel and sense the threat at the beginning because slowly and slowly you are engulfed to emulate your bad friend’s way of living in one way or another. Some of the effects are extremely disastrous to your future. You do not know that your constant companionship with these bad friends programs your way of thinking and develops into a habit.

The negative influence of bad friends knows no boundaries. Even in a short time in a company, the influence is great. It can change the world! Imagine what happened to the daughter of newspaper magnate and publisher Randolph Hearst. The kidnapped Patricia Hearst, his 19-year-old daughter, after 3 months in the company of kidnappers, became friends and converted herself into a member of the terrorist organization. She sympathized with the cause of the Symbionese Liberation Army (SLA) and participated willingly in the bank robbery. After just a short period of friendship, the daughter of a wealthy and famous family becomes a robber. It ruined her life!

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There are many ways to avoid falling for bad friends. Look for, associate with, and surround yourself with only positive influencers; hang out with only those who support and enhance your life; filter their background and stick to those who share your mission and ambitions in life.

Indeed, bad friends negatively influence your life in far more powerful ways than you imagine. It can change your outlook on how you perceive the world and can behave towards you on the dark side. By putting yourself in the company of bad friends, like Ruby on the pork barrel scam and Patricia Hearst on bank robbery with kidnappers, you are inviting a disaster. Bad friends, like a giant black hole sitting quietly at the center of our Milky Way, are on the lookout for someone on the verge of annihilation. The bible puts it, 22 Cor 6:14-15.

14Do not make unsuitable covenants with those who do not believe: Can justice walk with wickedness? Can light coexist with darkness, 15 and can Christ and Satan coexist peacefully? What kind of union can there be between one who believes and one who does not believe?

Slowly but surely, bad friends ruin your life.

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