Associates

The ambience/your associates have an astounding effect on your behavior. If you look around, right from childhood to the adult age, the influence of those surrounding any individual has big effect on how the individual thinks, speaks, behaves, etc. You may observe how the language of some children varies when they are not in good circle. Or how they pick up the talent when they have right partners, guides in school, tuition or other places.

This can be visualized easily if we follow the drop of rain. If you pick up the drop of water before falling, you can drink it. If it falls below in some good tank, you can use it to wash your hands or clothes or your vehicle. If it falls in some gutter, you may not even wash your feet with it. If it falls on hot silencer of some bike or any hot surface, it will evaporate & vanish, if it falls on lotus leaf, it will shine & the last one will change its value to something you may not even think. If it falls on oyster, it will become a pearl. So, you see that the starting material is same, but its value is so variable and all depends on 'with whom it will associate'.

If you choose a partner with whom you go for a walk in the morning, he will be your force to get up daily and start your morning with a great mind & friend. If you have some associates who have bad habits, you will pick them up. So always choose your partner/associates because it has huge influence on your future as well as the present. If you are more influential, then the story is altogether different.