The current level that you are is a product of the people who you soround your self with because associations matters a lot, in our biology we where taught about different associations that exist in nature which includes symbiosis, mutuality and parasitism etc
Exactly the circle of friends you keep facilitates your current success and current positions in life and just as everything is opened to change then you ought to change the association you keep cause it goes s long way in determining your future outcome. Having said this life is a lesson and like the saying goes once bitten twice shy and inorder to survive in this economy it's an avenue to surround yourself with people of great influence and affluence, people void of hates and jealousy but rather strive for the best in themselves.