"Show me who your friends are and I'll tell you who you are"
"You are the company you keep"
"Birds of a feather, flock together"
From what I can see, all these phrases basically mean the same thing:
If you aint shit, your friends probably aint shit either
and I want to say I agree with that....
I don't think you should judge someone by what they look like nor where they come from. But I think it's fair to judge someone by their friends. The way I see it is, who you keep around you ideally should reflect your morals. I said ideally... because at the end of the day a lot of people are scared to check their friends.
We all have a friend that puts their foot in it sometimes and we all know someone who's offensive but hey? you get used to them once you know them.
As opposed to telling your friends what's what, you let it slide and next thing you know they're iceskating. In other words, you're being tolerant.
But surely what you tolerate says a lot about you?
I mean if your four closest friends are racists, you might argue you're not a racist. But you're there when they're making racist remarks and you don't check their problematic behaviour. What does that say about you?
That's one end of the spectrum anyway, slightly going off into the deep end. But I'm curious, how much can you and your friends disagree on something before it affects the friendship.
I'll give you an example, I have this thing where I think if you think someone is unattractive you shouldn't vocalise it and should you know, mind your own damn business but I also have a friend who often refers to people as 'repulsive'.
Lol, 'repulsive' like can you believe it. Like it's not funny but you don't use that to refer to an actual human being.
A Blobfish? Yes
A Naked Mole Rat? Yes
But not Jimmy who works in Sainsbury's.
Anyway I've told this person numerous times "It's wrong" ya di ya di ya. They don't really care so does that mean it's a case of agree to disagree? I really don't know.
I mean I think we all have to acknowledge that we are not gonna agree on everything with those closest to us. But how do you distinguish whether your friendship with someone compromises your fundamental beliefs.
Anyway, I don't know if this blog post makes any sense at all. But if you think you can answer my question please drop a comment below...or not. You can leave me hanging if that's what you want.
"You are the company you keep"
"Birds of a feather, flock together"
From what I can see, all these phrases basically mean the same thing:
If you aint shit, your friends probably aint shit either
and I want to say I agree with that....
I don't think you should judge someone by what they look like nor where they come from. But I think it's fair to judge someone by their friends. The way I see it is, who you keep around you ideally should reflect your morals. I said ideally... because at the end of the day a lot of people are scared to check their friends.
We all have a friend that puts their foot in it sometimes and we all know someone who's offensive but hey? you get used to them once you know them.
As opposed to telling your friends what's what, you let it slide and next thing you know they're iceskating. In other words, you're being tolerant.
But surely what you tolerate says a lot about you?
I mean if your four closest friends are racists, you might argue you're not a racist. But you're there when they're making racist remarks and you don't check their problematic behaviour. What does that say about you?
That's one end of the spectrum anyway, slightly going off into the deep end. But I'm curious, how much can you and your friends disagree on something before it affects the friendship.
I'll give you an example, I have this thing where I think if you think someone is unattractive you shouldn't vocalise it and should you know, mind your own damn business but I also have a friend who often refers to people as 'repulsive'.
Lol, 'repulsive' like can you believe it. Like it's not funny but you don't use that to refer to an actual human being.
A Blobfish? Yes
A Naked Mole Rat? Yes
But not Jimmy who works in Sainsbury's.
Anyway I've told this person numerous times "It's wrong" ya di ya di ya. They don't really care so does that mean it's a case of agree to disagree? I really don't know.
I mean I think we all have to acknowledge that we are not gonna agree on everything with those closest to us. But how do you distinguish whether your friendship with someone compromises your fundamental beliefs.
Anyway, I don't know if this blog post makes any sense at all. But if you think you can answer my question please drop a comment below...or not. You can leave me hanging if that's what you want.
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