Student,
If your friends drink, eventually you will begin to drink. If you are friends with smokers, you will become a smoker. If you hang out with robbers, thieves, pill heads and otherwise trifling people, you too will become trifling.
Just the same, if you hang out with friends who are focused on school, you too, will focus more on school. If your friends spend their evenings studying, you will find yourself studying more. If your friends strive for excellence, you will begin to expect excellence from yourself, too.
Please be intentional about who you choose to be friends with, for you are the company you keep.
Maurice Guest Jr., is an education administrator in Little Rock, Arkansas.
Maurice Guest Jr. 