It is so true for me.
At every phrase of life, there will be this group of people that fight together with you and against you.
For me, it started with a big bang of people, when my network is huge. It then streamline to a few who stayed till now.
I guess I learnt that it can be so tiring trying to please everyone so I probably took the easy way out by being myself. Whoever can accept that will stay, whoever wants to be around will stay, whoever that appreciates will stay.
However so, I am grateful for all the various individuals who shaped me to be who I am today. Good or bad, kind or evil, compassionate or mean, appreciative or depreciative, fair or bias, humble or proud, the list can go on.