Toxic Friends!

When traveling its so important to be mindful of the people that you invite into your life. When you are hundreds or thousands of miles away from family, its easy to become attached to many social circles you wouldn’t normally skate around if you were in your “normal environment“.

Same goes for the people you meet. I’ve noticed while traveling that some people tend to take on these grandiose personalities that probably isn’t an accurate reflection for their true persona, if they were in their normal environment. 

I’m thankful for the many years studying psycho-blah blah and years of self reflection/discovery and enhancement that helps me to become alarmed of “Toxic friends” when they are present.

If you want more advice I suggest watching LuBellaCoils youtube video about Toxic Friends. It was my viewing of her video this weekend that helped me come to the realization that I had some of those people in my life currently. And it was a good thing that I recently relinquished them of that “friend” title. After all some people are only meant to be around for a season and not a lifetime.

But when traveling it seems as though the “friendship” cycle is accelerated at a pace that is more rapid than when in our normal environments. Two months of knowing someone feels like two years.

Now I don’t want this post to go on too long, so I will wrap it up by saying this last bit.

Never lose sight of why you are traveling. Be it for volunteer work, self discovery, to see the world etc. And when toxic friends find their way into this equation, quickly realize it and eliminate them and continue on your journey.

Please do not let them taint your experience!