Tell me who your friends are and I'll tell you who you are.

"Tell me who your friends are and I'll tell you who you are."

I would like to know everyone's opinion. Do you agree to this? why and why not?

Are there some basis, findings, hypothesis, exceptions etc. to this Assyrian Proverb?

very well explained sweet10.. what else can i add? lol you've said it all.. mwah!

I like this the most! "It is right that we valued every friendship we have..thats what matters most. "

""I do have different circle of friends too…from young people to older ones…from gay to lesbian, separated and widow…i even do have friend who is a whore..does it mean i am a whore too? We can just give our advices to them..but still its up to them to decide for themselves..so we can't blame people around you…its "YOU" who decide for yourself and no one else."" -submitted by sweet10

B-I-N-G-O! sweets!

since kana has suggested commercial sex worker.. i checked thefreedictionary.com for other suitable words as well.. lol

missed you kana!  would love to hear what's the latest about you… how's the trip? still jet lagged?

This proverb is to teach people to value personality of someone. I think this is right in some ways. For example, if u see Peter often goes with naughty boys (use drugs, be drunk all days, steal …), it will be easy for u to think that Peter is also not good. But it's just your first impression about him. This maybe true or false. Peter still can be a good person in fact. You'd better make the final conclusion only after having chances to contact him and understand him more.

Awww!!!! Kana dear… sorry for the term..but i don't judge them as bad person really..they are also good person and friends if you are nice to them…and i know that they do it not just for themeselves…and for any reason why they are doing it ..i agree with you… ..at least they don't kill people.

Sakura..thanks..was flattered..lol….

it has been decades lol… and thank you, shakura, for the way u reminded me of this topic. well, go back to ur Q " why not try to make things right with them and continue building friendship? why not value the friendship?" i do value the friendship, my friend, but what could i do if i don't feel close to them (him/her) anymore? i am afraid of having another bad experience(s) with them. it is better to protect myself from getting in such situation. it is the way i value them, giving them a chance not to hurt me as well as giving me a chance not to be hurt again.

to closehoney and Komodia, you guys perfectly understood me. thanks for ur sympathetic

Hi Sakura!
It is true that company has a deep impact on our thinking and course of actions. If we have good friends, we can be inspired to do creative things, but if our friends are destructive, some of their malicious thoughts may percolate into your mind and heart, and disuave you to do wrong things…

it's true sweet10 it doesn't matter what job they have as long as they don't kill people..

lol whnext.. this has been rolling for decades and still going… thanks for answering my question.. now i know why you don't want to continue your friendship.. you don't want to get hurt again.

you have a point there, friends may have deep impact to us anubarthwal, but still we have our own thinking and control to ourselves. i know we can really be affected but we don't let others manipulate us. thanks for your opinion!

i don't agree with this proverb, because you know that Judas all friend were perfect, but he was betrayer. So you must't judge people on based of their friends!

hello ;

i totaly agree ;

in our religeion (islam) we say that a a good friend is like a flower it smels good and make you feel happy but in the contarry a bad friend a very bad smels comes from him and make you feel bad …

mor than this in isslame we say that any person who stays between some poeple more than 40 days becomes one of them and in consecance like them..

this my oppinion about it so we have to choose our friends very carfully…

thanks for this topic…

We have the same proverb in Italian, I do believe that who you associate with can effect your mind. Surrounding yourself with good friends and positive people is healthy and positive. If you surround yourself with people who are full of negativity and unable to lead  productive lives will eventually drain you of your energy and bring you down with them.