interesting.  I’m somewhat the opposite. 

in junior high & my freshman year of high school, I hung out with the wrong crowd—most of them ended up dropping out. I realized they were headed nowhere, & I literally had to fistfight my way out of those friendships.

that’s when I realized who I wanted—actually, who I *needed to surround myself with.  most of my adult friendships are still today rooted from those changes I made in my teens and twenties