The People You Meet

After a while, you begin to realize that the people you interact with really do begin to shape the way you live your life. It's in the small things, like phrases or looks that you pick up. But it is in the big things, too, in the way you spend your evenings, think about society or even how you find love. Everyone that we have any real contact with either reaffirms or questions our direction.

I wonder how this all works out. I mean, are we naturally drawn to those who mostly reaffirm our direction so that we must do less altering to our life? Is there some subconscious motivator that drives our direction towards that of someone we admire? What if, in a single evening, you meet someone who changes the way you have thought about everything? Should you file those emotions away to ponder over time or should you alter course now, not knowing how your life will change?