Yes, I did the same thing. To keep positive, you must surround yourself with positive people. However, we're brought up thinking we have to be popular and the more friends you have the better, so when things get rough, as they have for me, and no-one is around you start wondering.
But a funny thing happens when your old friends dissipate, you start seeing the good friends more clearly.
A good friend, who is very positive, said to me, 'If someone does something or says something that I feel is damaging to me or my life, I downgrade them from friend to acquaintance.' When my friend told me that, I thought that is a great idea, because that way you're not totally rejecting them and booting them out. It seems like a more natural way to do things.
In fact, 12 step programs point out that sometimes you have to quit 'the crowd' to quit the habit.
Birds of a feather flock together and all that jazz.
I also read that if you take the income of the 5 people you are most close to, and average it out, you'll get your own income within something like $10K.
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