this is a rock and this is water
if you pour water on a rock nothing
happens but if you pour water on a rock
time after time after time the rock
eventually changes I can't believe I'm
making this video but here is a
confession when I was a kid I loved
eating meat and all my friends did too
because meat was a favorite dish and
vegetarians I hated because life is too
short not to enjoy meat until one day
something crazy happened I found a girl
online and I liked her I took her on a
date and all of a sudden she says I'm
vegetarian I thought to myself crap I
like this girl but eating out with her
is going to be difficult day after day
after day we would go on dates and she
would order avocado and I would order
steak and she would whisper
I disagree she ate her own and I ate
mine but her small influence on my food
was like water hitting my rock and after
hundreds of meals and hundreds of waves
my rock started changing and one day I
woke up and realized that I no longer
eat meat I was shocked I don't know why
I stopped because I love steak but when
all my friends
allene and my best friend a God ordered
vegetables day after day after day I
gave in and changed my diet
you might think this video is about food
but it's really not it's bigger than
that this video is about the people
around you because they change and shape
you in ways that you cannot control if
your group of friends drink alcohol you
will eventually drink alcohol if your
closest friends are athletic
you will become athletic if your closest
friends want to succeed in life you will
succeed in life even if you're a rock
and your friends are water sooner or
later they will change you for better or
for worse it actually goes both ways I
learned a lot from spending time with
nuts I'm a lot more ambitious now and I
use my time much more efficiently I use
every day to do something to work for it
my goals I stopped eating meat because
of my friends but the bigger picture
here is that you should be careful who
your closest friends are because sooner
or later you will become them
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