Author, I have gone this way and the answer to your question is rather yes. They don't have to pull you to the bottom, but they will definitely hurt you in one way or another. To understand what I mean, I will tell you how it happened to me. I had 3 friends that I considered the best, and one of them, the best of the three. I had others, of course, but the three of us were together literally every day. I was something of a link between them, because as I said, I was very close to each one. Not that they weren't close to each other, but not so much. So, what happened. When we were little, our interests overlapped to a great extent, because we were united by games and pranks. The difference was that I focused on learning, while they didn't. However, the Lord kept me responsible and did not allow me to stray from the path. Honestly, I was hardly tempted. Like you, I wanted to develop and achieve my goals on my own. So the days passed and we approached 18 (rather me, because the other three are a little smaller than me). Sometime around this time, one of them started smoking (the one I thought was the best). It was more of a joke, but in bad things you always start from there. Smoking in general was very fashionable then. At school, too, many of my classmates smoked regularly. The result is clear, within a year or two we all started smoking regularly. I pulled for a long time. I was supposed to smoke only when I went out, then I stopped completely for about a year, but in the end I started again. Eventually I stopped them, but for 5 or more years I smoked regularly. In the meantime, I went to university, graduated and started working in my specialty. Although, that I did not study in my hometown, I returned every week. I missed my friends and family, and I never came across the right people at university. Of the others, the one with whom we were supposedly closest also received a higher education, but he did not want a specialty and made it just enough to say that he graduated. Maybe now is the time to clarify that after we stopped playing football, hide and seek and more. similar, ie after we finished school, the only thing that united us was going out to cafes and discos. In general, the other had no other interests. I didn't mind much, and although I tried to find time to read books and other things I liked to do, there were a lot of things that I missed. For example, I love going out in nature, running, cycling, etc. To them, it was like making them knock stones. However, as I said, for me they were friends and I stuck to them. Until at a "good" moment it turned out that both of them (including the supposedly best) obviously didn't care about me at all. Almost at the same time, both of them, independently of each other, began to purposefully avoid any contact with me. And as it usually happens, then I needed them the most. I had broken up with my girlfriend and felt very lonely and sad. However, I'm not sorry. I'm not sorry, because I've been able to go back to many of the things I've neglected in recent years. I started playing sports again, enjoying nature and doing everything that makes me happy, instead of soaking in a cafe every free hour. I'm just sorry that a long friendship (at least on my part) ended in such a ridiculous way. The third person in our group is still friends and we see each other regularly. While with the one with whom we passed almost for brothers, although we live on the same street, twenty meters from each other, we barely greet each other. In that line of thinking, you don't have to lose them as friends, but personally I don't see what else you can do together other than drink coffee from time to time. It is not my fault to consider your free time with them, because it will simply be lost. you don't have to lose them quite like girlfriends, but personally I don't see what other things you can do together than drink coffee from time to time. Don't make the mistake of considering your free time with them, because it will simply be lost. you don't have to lose them quite like girlfriends, but personally I don't see what other things you can do together than drink coffee from time to time. Don't make the mistake of considering your free time with them, because it will simply be lost.
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The solution is to just stop contacting them or they will drag you down. I guess there are decent people in your group who make friends and go out with them, these two scumbags, dump them, nothing good is waiting for you if you stay with them.