YOU are What Your Companions Make YOU

First, a contra view – ‘you become what you think of yourself’, is a popular thinking which is far from reality in my view. Almost every person thinks him/herself as right at all times in-spite of his/her differences with others. If it were so, there won’t be any differences. I have been dealing with this topic for a long time in different ways, and again at it, incidentally.

Almost each of suffers from ’super-consciousness’ wherein everyone thinks him/herself as something what he/she is really not but poses to be through his/her conduct in public. This ailment is often found in all religious/spiritual preachers and all those posing as agents of the phantom called God. In public, they pose to be close to and franchisees of God and having rights to preach others. In most of the cases, they pose so as their business for misguiding others for their own gains. But there are exceptions too, who really come to mislead themselves to be divine or something else what they are not. Under such an influence of super-consciousness, they behave quite differently from their realities, so much so that they may speak in a foreign language which they knew a little of in their realities.

Thus, what a person thinks of him/herself, is for different reasons, which he/she has never been and would never be. Such persons are either cheats, misguided or psychologically insane.

A person is indeed made by the companions he/she keeps. Did you not notice handwriting of a child is often influenced by the handwriting of his.her primary school teacher? For this reason, it is popularly said, “A person is known by the company he/she keeps”.

There are two truths behind a companionship -

1. Every person looks for like-minded persons as his/her companions and feels at home with such persons and settles with them for life. Thus, a person is known by the company he/she keeps. 
2. Companions influence a person in multiple ways – they lead, guide, inspire, induce, persuade, etc. to be like themselves. 

It is the second point, I would like to deal with in some detail because that is an important cause of what a person tends to become ultimately. I have been writing articles on many sites, and I have come to realize that my writing style and quality on a site is highly influenced by style and quality of other authors on that site. It makes me to stick to sites which, in my opinion, contain quality contents and in the process leave others. Surprisingly, my writing style is getting different at different sites. Thus, I intend to become and tend to become an author of style and quality of other authors on the sites I write on. Thus, my friends, you will become soon what your long-term companions are. So, keep good company – as your introduction as well as for what you would like to be.