I don’t really give two craps about associations…

I think that’s important to say. Because all of us have known or worked or dealt with people we don’t necessarily like. During my life, I’ve worked with DPs who were doped up on cocaine – does that mean I’m a cocaine addict? That I endorse cocaine addicts? No, it doesn’t. But situations happen, life happens, and we move on from there. And that’s not the least of my associations or acquaintances.

Let me dare to be presumptuous and say that you also have a lot of skeletons in your closet in the guise of people you’ve worked with, met, hung out with, on and on and on. People you didn’t know anything about or people who maybe you knew weren’t the most savory of characters, but realized that what made them less than role-model didn’t have a direct bearing on your life or your goals.

I’m not asking you to state who they are. I’m just asking you to realize the simple truth of this.

Personally, I think it’s who you are, who the person is, what they say, what they do, that matters more. Maybe your dad was an alcoholic or drug addict who cheated on your mom or beat your brother. Does that make you any of those things? Do the sins of the father or the friend immediately sully you?

In my mind – No.
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