<human>: Summarize the given text in a few sentences.

Recently I decided to leave my old circle and seek truth out in the world. One outcome of this quest has been less than flattering.

My old party lifestyle gave me some ideas that were not very mature and in sharing one with an associate today I think I may have lost a small amount of respect from them. 

I'm not overly phased about that as there is no changing my past and I was telling the truth about it, but it made me realize that I've been doing things simply to gain the approval of my old, frat boy friends, which is really stupid because I'm actually not that kind of person at all when I think about it and I have better things to do with my time. 

I've just been stuck in a pattern because I've had the same circle for so long that I never realized how immature some of my ideas were until testing one of them on a different audience.
<bot>: If one of your primary life goals is to draw a mythical creature made entirely of genitalia, it may be time to re-evaluate your priorities a little.