My senior year, I struggled to find out who I was and what I TRULY believed. Throughout the beginning months of my senior year, I began to hang out with the wrong friends and tried to impress certain people in hopes that i would be accepted by this ”group”. Day after day I would alter my appearance and my emotional state to find some form of acceptance. One day, a true friend of mine sat me down and asked me who I was. Stumbling, I gave him the basic answers: Im a friend to all, I’m a Christian, and I love my family.
He asked me again. Shocked, I didn’t know what to say. Answering for me, he said: “YOU are BROOKS. God created you to become the person HE wants you to be. its not about what other people want or who they want you to be... it’s about your relationship with Christ and finding out who you are in Christ.
That changed my perspective and I began to drop the toxic relationships with people I had no reason being together with. Once I developed who I was, I began to bring friends into my life who not only developed my identity, but I also got the opportunity to pour into them as well.