Fleeing Bad Company

When Aquinas says flee the external occasions such as, for instance, bad company, that doesn't mean just individuals. It also means anything that would lead us to sin. What are your triggers? What are your emotional triggers and what are your physical triggers? Flea them. Don't hang out with them. Sometimes people might fall into the trap of thinking, I have to hang out with these people because I'm trying to lead them to Jesus. There's nothing super inspiring about you hanging out with a bunch of drunk people fornicating. That makes you look like a loser if anything else. And this must be done by mortification of the flesh.