Influence: A two-way traffic

I've always maintained that, to a greater extent, the life we live is an outplay of relativism. Apart form the clearly defined boundaries of life and death, there might just be a handfuls of absolute situations that subsumes the practicality of relativism.

There are no absolute good and absolute bad, except as viewed from the perspective of the considering subject. In the same vein, there could only be a right or wrong application of a framework as appreciated by the framers. This is a more obtainable reality that does not in anyway dismiss the also reality of the few significant absolutes that splashes across life.

Think about a particular scenario where you could be wrong in trying to undermine the entirety of it and where you could as well be right to consider it- each aspect of the decision happening in differed appreciation, albeit. Consider this, and consider the place of influence in it.

Influence is a phenomenon that requires discretion to get the best of value. One wherein you could be wrong and as well right, depending on the appreciating approach. As such, it is to say that such a phenomenon should be approached as would the bathtub that holds a baby and the bathwater!

Influence is good, influence is bad. The point being that you must be selective in what influences you and how they do. For you could be misled and shaken out in trying to be persuaded into yielding even as you could similarly miss out of enabling insights while trying to assume inured as hard rock.

Let's take the instance of the influence derivable from friendship. One of the circumstances we're easily is in friendship. Consider a friend who has some of attributes you perceive as cool, good and at the same instance (as an imperfect human that friend is) the friend has some nasty, bad attributes. Would you stick around to be influenced by the good attributes or would you just flee so as not to be contaminated by the bad influences?

Which would you rather do? But remember here, there's no absolute right or absolute wrong decision; you cannot be entirely correct or entirely wrong in any one decisive choice. It's a relativistic scenario that requires the deepest of discretion to make best of.

The point, as always, is that life is relativistic and there should be conscious application of discretion in those situations that present us with the seemingly onerous or tricky task of having to sieve out the bad while wholesomely sipping in the good from selfsame content. 

In a world where influence- social, psychological and sundry- is rippled with so much relative alternatives, you must be very wise not to be dismissive of influences nor should you pander to them to self-destruct.