The place where you choose to live is shaping you as a person. If you have to continually be alert of your surroundings, if you have to regularly deal with lack of common sense, if you have to learn how to handle constant cynicism, it will show in your personality, your guard will be up, and one day, you will look back and realize that you have no friend.

The opposite is true: if you mostly spend your time around thoughtful and kind people, if you can open up without getting hurt because you are surrounded by good people, if you can assume the best from others and be proven right time after time, you will progressively sharpen your own intuition when it comes to who is worth building long-term relationships with, and one day, you will look back and realize that you are surrounded by love.

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