This post is about maintaining old friends as well as building a network of new ones and why I am struggling with it. TRP has shown me that you really do need people around you to be powerful and successful. Away from home I have a pretty solid network but it's nowhere close to what I had before I left home. When I return home I find that more and more of my old friends are choosing lives focused on drugs and dead ends rather than growth. These are the people that I relied on in the past, but now I can't even hold a real conversation with anymore. And when I make new friends there's a 50/50 shot that behind their cool personality is another pothead or dead end job with no ambition. I am getting so sick of having NOBODY that will push me to greatness and that I can do the same to. I have gone lone wolf before for months at a time but it becomes very lonely and eventually detrimental to my growth - bottom line is I need people around to bounce off of and elevate from .. call me needy but after years of TRP this is what I know.