Off Balance?

I somehow feel like so much has changed. I feel like I'm changing, growing into a different person. Even the word growing seems like its the wrong word to use. I feel different, my mindset has changed, I talk differently, or at least i think i do. Is this a good or bad thing? i don't know. Maybe i think I'm becoming cooler now, hanging with different people, doing different things, trying to act over my age?

My friend had a theory that he told me a few weeks back, and the more I think about it, the more i think it's totally true. He said that the people you hang around with, shape the way you think, the way you act and affect your priorities. So being placed in the company of different people constantly will have an adverse influence on who you are. I'm not too sure if adverse is the right word. Unless I'm a person with little influence over myself, then maybe he's right. But then again, i always thought i was a person who didn't care what others thought and stuck to my own beliefs.

I feel like the past few months have been very revealing of who i am as a person. Not just in character but the traits deep down inside. You could say I'm at a crossroad. Thrown off balance.

Is this peculiar for me at this stage? Or is this what they call growing up?