Sometimes, the most important thing you'll need to know, is how to be your own best friend.
Friends are integral part of every human. So, as we are entering a new year, its pertinent to learn to be your own friend first.
Being your own friend, means being able to love yourself and not worry to be alone. Yes! Sometimes that is what you need to grow. Sometimes being alone gives you the clear head to reflect and to be truthful to yourself by doing a soul searching. As the year is coming to an end and ushering us into another year, its the best time for reflection and planing. I will urge everyone to include in their plans the friends they will be keeping and the ones to be discarded. Most important, one should learn to be his own friend.
show me your friends and I will show you who you are.
Birds of the same feather flock together. Is there anything you do with friends, that ordinarily you won't do it when you are alone? Do you always regret your action when you are with a particular friend? Do you spend on frivolities when you are with some friends ? If any of your friends makes you do any of the above things, I urge you to discard them away as friends in the new year. Because you are not having the same feather with them.
You see those friends you contribute money to buy beer with but cannot contribute money to start business with, flee from them next year. You see those friends that makes it comfortable for you to cheat on your partner, flee from them. You see those friends that makes you comfortable committing all sort of vices with, run from them. That's my new year advice for you.
When I say being your own friend, I mean, being able to love yourself and not need validation from friends that won't help you grow. It is only when you are a friend to yourself that you can be fully truthful to yourself without being influence by media, friends or the government narratives in your decision making. Happy new year.