It is imperative to have the company of more and more
good and ideal people in your life to blossom your characteristic traits. In
your adolescence days, if you fortunate enough to get enlaced with bright,
idealistic and noble people and you have their edifications continuously, you
will be able to shine in the future. So,
it is your parents who has to deeply involve in your upbringing from the very
little age to ensure this phenomenon. If you are associated with wrong companions,
no matter whatever your goal and objective and your desire to achieve the same,
you cannot accrue the expected results to your likings because of negative influences
exerted by your associates. If you plant a poor quality rose in the midst of
all high quality rose bushes, the poor quality may not destroy the high quality
one, but if a good quality comes into contact of poor quality rose bushes, the charm
and the fragrance of the good quality rose will fade away or will not be
blossomed as it should be. In the case of human being, it is also the same. It
is said that a person is known and acknowledged by his company. For example, if
you are desirous to be a wealthy person, you must mingle with rich people
frequently. With your mingling with various rich people, you will follow their
qualities, their thinking pattern, their habits and many other qualities, which
will ultimately help you to achieve your desire to become wealthy provided you
work relentlessly in that direction.. If you want to become an artist, you must
develop a habit to mix with the people in the same profession, watch the
particular art, learn the techniques, practice the particular method of
preparing the arts and continue to do some painstaking preparations required to
be an artist. Similarly, if you want to become a wrestler, you need to make
yourself more fit by toning your muscles, doing regular exercise, consuming
balance calorie food and maintaining a disciplined lifestyle. Your close
association with other wrestlers will not only make you to follow their regime
of lifestyle, but also you will be leading to make yourself a similar type of athlete. In the same way, if
you want to be a spiritual person and dedicate your life to God and are very
much desired to serve the underprivileged section of the society, you have to
seek the company of the people who are spiritual and able to devote their lives
to serving God and others. If you spend your quality time with a person who
habitually meditates, obviously you will also like to meditate. Initially, you
will follow, but by increasing your mingling with that particular person, you
are bound to concentrate on this powerful technique of doing meditation. It is
very much advisable to keep company with people, who value ethical living and
practice noble virtues. This will help you to act in the same way. In today’s
glamorous and wealth conscious world, people tend to mix with others based on
their outward profile. But it is prudent to select the company based on the
inner profile. You must avoid the company of rich persons, who indulge in all unethical
life practice. Contrarily, a rich person with all noble qualities must be
considered as a role model for your mingling and follow his qualities. He must
be one of your ideal companions. So,
evaluation of your companions is a crucial exercise. Your quality friends are
instrumental in your personal growth and
you must focus your attention to increase their numbers. You will always feel
warm when you get their association because they are your true friends in
contributing your growth. It is based on the concept of “like attracts like”,
but the selection is far more important.
Our lives in this universe are precious. We have a
limit of our living, up to the ages of 60, 70, 80 or even 90 years. In this
period, we must define the purpose of our lives. We must plan to achieve
selected goals and for that matter, it is a wise decision to select like minded
people. If you are in a company of naysayer all the time, you will lose the
purpose of life which you set forward. You will be motivated by their wrong
advices and slowly forget your own prosperity goals.
If we are lucky enough to be in the company of noble
and spiritual minded people, our lives will radiate the breath of spirituality.
Being in the company of such type of people, you will be able to focus your
wholehearted attention to spirituality and thereby you will be easily able to discriminate
between the company of good and bad.
A good companion never leaves anyone alone whether a situation is good or
bad. He always cares for the others, whether living or non-living beings, loves
them wholeheartedly and protects them from all troubles. Take an example of a
good shepherd. A good shepherd never leaves his sheep alone. Instead, he walks
ahead of the flock so that he can lead them safely. Suppose the shepherd has
hired a person, but he runs away when he sees a wolf is coming to chase the sheep. This hired person
abandons the sheep because they do not belong to him and does not care for the
lives of the sheep. And so, the wolf attacks them and scatters the flocks. The
hired man is leaving the sheep in the
teeth of danger because he is working only for money. But if the shepherd gets
a good person, who will equally care for the sheep like his owner, then he is
the true companion of the shepherd despite knowing that the sheep do not belong to him. Similarly,
a good companion must be a person who never makes you alone, protects you and
shows a right path to follow. He will be
always with you to encourage to practice
all ethics and virtues to live a religious life. A right companion is not the
one, who makes you join the path of darkness. He protects you, quarrels with
you and advises you when you get
indulged in any type of unethical activities and then guides you to walk in the path of “light”.
A wise selection of good companions is extremely
beneficial because they only make you noble. Contrarily, the bad companions may
be propitious at the face of it and you will be attracted to lot many grandeurs,
but after a passage of time your life will be almost hellish.
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