Have you ever noticed how we pick up the ways of our friends? If you hang out with someone who uses bad words, you learn bad words. If you hang out with someone who's kind, you learn kindness! We become like whoever we walk with!
You know when you're around someone with a cold and you end up catching it too? It's kind of like that with people's ways: we “catch” the habits of whoever we spend time with!
If you hang out with friends who study, you end up studying more. If you hang out with someone who helps others, you become kinder too. But the opposite is also true: if you hang out with someone who does wrong things, it gets easy to do wrong too.
That's why choosing your friends well matters so much! And you know who's the best friend of all to walk with? Jesus! He said: “learn from me” (Matthew 11:29).