Do you think you are who you hang out with?

You’re not the people you hang out with. I am a musician and don’t own a working instrument, but I have two that are broken. I am my broken instruments, because I have nothing to play with?

Thing is, people aren’t like instruments. When people break they can’t be goal oriented.

Go alcohol. Go prose.

@jessicazavalaa, I would say yes, you absolutely ARE the sum total of the 5 to 10 people you spend the most time with. It’s a phrase I’ve heard many times, and many times I have observed it in real life, including my own. I too had too many drinkers/stoners/non-driven people in my life and, while of course they never FORCED me to waste my time, I felt that they certainly influenced me to, even if they did so unconsciously. So I’ve trimmed down the number of people I hang out with considerably, and now just have my core group of passionate, creative, and true friends.

Hang out with the party people if you want, but do realize they have a good chance of influencing you, and the more you hang out with them, the greater the chance will be that you will be like them. If you don’t want to cut them out entirely, you could always just hang out with them less.

Not. People can be different from each other and still get along.

When we question these things, then we know that something needs a change.
Our click is somewhere else. Otherwise we would feel comfortable. This is blunt, but much easier to type lol.
Don’t feel judgmental… we all have different paths and yours is just different from the one’s you are hanging out with.

they live their life as they choose.

There so many different answers to this question but I feel like for most circumstances you definitely are who you hang out with its proven. Take this music thing you are in love with and blast off in a completely different direction. Comparing the people you hang out with to instruments is a completely illogical thing to do, such a bad connection. But Im in the same place as you are and Im searching for these new successful people to surround myself with. Everyone in my city seems to be caught up in the wrong thing drugs, partying , alcohol…. and realistically this is all a distraction from what you could be doing to be a successful musician. I know this one line from a song by Drake where he says “while all of my closest friends out partying , I’m sitting here making the music they party to” it just kind of just relates what it takes to be a successful musician, this may not be the best relation but I think its pretty good because look at where that man is today. Don’t waste your time partying , and dont let your friends talk you into doing this every week. There is more to life.

Surround yourself with success and movements and you will become it

Well, the person you hang out with the most is yourself.

So yeah, you are.

Yes, to some extent….we are who we are with just because we choose to spend time with those who are like us.

There is no need to delete your friends completely from your life. What you can do is try to spend a bit less time with them and spend some time more on your developing. you may go to some club or something like that and maybe find new friends that will motivate you. Do not be that definitive