I totally agree with you. You have a chance to make 100 million dollars over your career by working on your craft and you decide to hang out with low life losers at a club. Someone please explain to me how Joseph thinks because I don’t understand. My old self would cut my momma loose if she was bringing me down. Joseph needs to be hanging with Diggs, Brown and Lewis.
As fast as some of these guys are, they simply can't outrun their character. We think money changes people. It doesn't. You'll be the same person you are with money than you are without it.
That's why it is
IMPORTANT to train a child and to remind young people the company you keep
MATTERS!
If you want to be great, hang around great people.
If you want to be popular, hang around popular people.
If you want to be lazy, hang around lazy people.
If you want to be an entrepreneur, hang around entrepreneurs.
If you want to be a thug, ....
We make these universal principles more difficult than they are. And then television lies to us, pitching the idea that change can occur over night. It doesn't. It's a long process, but rewarding when you take the right steps to forge strong character. And it's damning when you make the wrong choices, hang out with the wrong crowd, etc.
And then add the "Well, you can't judge people" or "Well, I don't want to be a goody two-shoes" mentality, and you make it easier for people to live and act beneath who they should be as productive members of society.
Be that as it may, what you feed your mind and the company you keep shapes your character. And once character gets embedded, it is
EXTREMELY difficult to change it. Not impossible. But difficult.
That's why this latest episode with KJ doesn't surprise me at all.
You take you wherever you go.