A good friend is one that stands besides you. They will support you and make you laugh. That is what a good friend is, but a bad influence is one that tease you and are hardheaded and knuckleheads. You can't trust them, because they will also tell anybody your secrets and it would be a huge disaster. Hang around with bad friends they could do BAD things to you. They could entice you do drugs, skip school, do grafitti, and mess around with other people. These are the reasons why you shouldn't hang around with bad people. Best friends can depend on each other and I have a special poem to make you remember the good times with friends.
The importance of being youself is that you can't act like anybody you see in real life or on TV. You have to accept the way you are and people can't just go around and do plastic surgery on themselves. (Some people can look disfigured due to having plastic surgery.) People should like you the way you are. But if they like the way you are pretending to be someone else, they won't really like you and that is why you have to accept youself for the way you are.
It is really important that you stay in school and get an education. You can be home -schooled and you can go to school. Get an education and you can do many things. You can possibly get a job and afford a house. Get zero education and you can't do anything because you didn't graduate, didn't stay in schoo,l or didn't get home-schooled, and you dropped out. Don't drop out school because then you won't pass through all of the schools and get a degree in college. That way you can't buy a car and you can't get a driver's license and get a pet to take care of. If you drop out you will probably be poor so this is why you need an education and stay in school.