Sucker FREE ZONE..."You are the company that you keep"

Who's around you, and what is their purpose/value to you?...the people you allow in your realm are reflective of who you are (good & bad)...and are real life, living, breathing, walking, all up in your face, lessons to be learned..some pleasant realities... while others, harsh as hell, hard to swallow and to digest even...from the friend(s) who's always positive to the one that gets on your nerves... there is a reason for EVERYTHING and EVERYONE...that being the case,hmmm...WHAT DO YOUR FRIENDS SAY ABOUT YOU?
As easy as it is to blame other people around me as being the reason(s) for my problems... I knew that doing that to myself was wrong and cowardly...and if I expected to grow, learn, and get to the next level of self mastery, as it relates to" ME", I HAD BETTER KEEP IT REAL ( WITH "ME")...
My "Self" assessment of "Thyself"...
Today I took an inventory of who's around me and why... what am I suppose to learn from the folks in my inner circle?Not to mention the new people I'm ATTRACTING...and the results were astounding, even to me!!...the statistics of who's nurturing my growth (and growing with me) was a pretty decent percentage, per their self-quality that is.. (a sure pleasant reality)... and the surprising realization I had to come to of those that weren't, was and still is being assessed (hmmmm?),is 2 be cont'd... some people's expiration dates snuck up on them (me too for that matter) and they had simply expired and or disappeared from my life ...I'm guessing that, subconsciously, as my focuses started to change,I found it more difficult to mesh well with allot of the people in situations where we no longer shared the same interest...Realizing that I had actually out grown the people,places,and things I use to do!...DAMN!...How can I put those folks in a certain category without being offensive and just cutting them off completely?...Besides, they still do serve a purpose...hmmm?
MY SOLUTION?... I GOT IT!...
I'll visit in spurts and never stay too long (short-n-sweet)...I mean after all they did mean something to me...there was tons of history and lots of LOVE still there...I had "accidentally" just out grown them and what we use to do...One might argue, they are still there for a reason, right?..Well, in any case, wish me luck!..today I put my theory to the test!...
THIS HAS BEEN ANOTHER ONE OF MY MANY THOUGHTS OUT LOUD... ....(exhale)