Bad Companies Destroys Good Manners

Friends plays an important role in our lives and one of the most important part of our journey in life has the can go on to be our source of motivation, encouragement and strength in times of difficulties and challenges, they also create memorable moments that we look back to and cherish as one of the interests part of our lives journey.

Despite how important friends are to human, we must be watched, mindful and careful of the kind of people we call our friends and roam with, because they can make it mar our lives if we're not careful and in this article I'll be sharing a personal experience of I had to cut off and why, so without further ado, let's get to it.

During my secondary school days I use to have this guy with whom I'm very close and we usually do almost everything together, and that's made possible because we leave not too far from own another, attended the same school and are in the same class. After our secondary school the friendship continues at home until I gain admission into the university and had to leave, after my 100 level he also gained admission into the institution I attended and since I'm already family with the place he reached out to me to come stay with me till he can find his feet.

That doesn't need to much thinking because he's someone I'm familiar with and knows his character, so I agreed to let him stay with me and he moved in with me and my roommate, and I was happy to have an old friend around and as well guide him in his academy journey and as well make sure he feels at home in this new environment. Unfortunately things didn't go as planned for long and that created a rift between us that made me ask him to leave.

It happened that not long after joining the school, he began to change and I began to notice some changes in his behaviour, first it was him moving with bad guys and cultic , which obviously didn't go well with me, I tried to call his attention to these changes, but he kept on saying he's not part of them, not long after that I noticed he start smoking and come home in the dead of the night, again I told him I'm not please with this, and that my roommate is complaining, but he didn't change.

What broke the camels back finally was when the cult groups began to fight one another and one day the other group came to our house and banging the door in search of him, luckily he wasn't at home and the cult guys knows I'm not one of them because I'm quite popular in the school Christian fellowship and that's how we were speared.

It was that very day I and my roommate decide we've had enough and when he came, we told him point blank that he's no longer welcome in our house, since he's not only trying to ruin his own life but endangers ours in the process. And that's how he left the house, and since then our friendship kept declining by the day, by the time I'll graduate from university we weren't even friends again and I don't want to have anything to do with him.

Although once in a while when we meet, I do try to encourage him to change his ways but he never did, and ended up having that lifestyle affect his academic, till he had Extra year twice before he could graduate.

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