want to be more..........always try

"Thinking" about how much difference a person can make in your life.
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Many people influence us in very positive ways. I have a couple of cousins (I have a lot of good cousins but I am thinking of two from two different families in particular right now) that from a very young age left me with the impression that they just were good sincere people who wanted to do their best, and did indeed to well at a lot of things, and many many years later they still impress me. Impress may be the wrong word. Inspire, motivate, admire, appreciate all work. I was better to have known them. I have always wanted to be more than I was because of that type of influence. I have had many friends that made a positive difference. Again the common thread was what kind of people they were. One friend, JP, was an advisor of sorts for a lot of years, even now if needed, and I knew that his standards for doing anything was going to take me in the "right" direction.
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We do make each other better. That said I think we ought to "seek out the best of friends and associates". If we are what we think, and that is pretty obvious, then we think about what and who we associate with. Perhaps some friends are not so positive and perhaps we can say that it is us that becomes the positive influence and great if that is the case but it takes twice the effort on our part to overcome the negative influence trying to put out some positive and a lot of years tells me we fool ourself thinking we are that strong. I have noticed that the two KJ's have had some very very good friends in their lives. That is a strong example for me to want to do the same. We can be better tomorrow no matter what our yesterdays were. We can.