Who I Am?

In my opinion it is who I am friends with is closely linked to my identity. Identity is a number of things to me, it is how I view life,
what I like to do, my heritage and traditions, it is what I choose to look like, my style and the way I project myself. What I have really notice is that my identity seems to be very closely nit to my friends. We all in a sense dress similar, we all have similar interests, and we all come from a similar heritage. One thing that one of us would find weird, most likely the other would as well. I even notice that we all talk very similar. One time I started to say the world “gnarly” and soon enough we were all saying it.
The scary part of being close with friends and having similar identities is that different qualities also rub off on each other. For example if one friend has a very negative quality, I believe that others pick up on that, and begins to be negative too. Therefore I have become more aware when choosing who I am friends with, to pick friends who will lift me up. A scripture is the bible relates to this by saying “bad company corrupt good morals” So if I choose friends with bad behavior like drinking and drugs, it is a biblical principal that sooner or later I will start to follow the path of my friends.
In order to correct this I can find the ultimate friend in God, and learn to mimic his nature, because it is perfect.