I have always been left to inundate in my thoughts of deciding if environment has a major role to play in the determination of one character and outcome, and after a lot of thinking I have come to a conclusion that our environment do go a long way in determining our behaviors and even how we interprete life but we choose whether we want to be successful or not ourselves base on my own life experience.
My life story
I once lived in a modest area where I was exposed to a lot of things even within my mum and dad jurisdiction, at a very young age I was sent on errands to buy cigarettes, marijuana, alcohols and the likes. I was exposed to a lot of bad habits and virtually knew the names of all cigarettes [Rothmans, Benson, White London, Brown London and the likes] and alcoholic drinks {Chelsea, Dark sailor, Seaman’s, Amazon and the likes] at a very tender age.
There was even a time when I was around the age of 11yeras old with great inquisitive as a bright boy, I questioned myself if there was something special about cigarettes, I couldn't summon enough courage to ask my street brothers that smoked it so I decided to try it out myself by smoking paper to imitate them. One day, after a guy dropped the one he was smoking I picked it up and try to imitate him, I almost coughed life out of myself that day.
There were a lot of people in my area then that keeps late night, goes to party, and had weird hairstyles. I also had friends who smoke, friends who were already having sex at the age of 15, friends who used vulgar words and the likes which most of them [few that are still alive though] are still doing till this very present moment.
Growing up in such an area go a long way in determining what I am today but thanks to proper monitoring and quick intervention from my mother coupled with my own determination I escaped most of the bad side and I formatted most of them from my day-day living eventually. Although what really help me to overcome some of these and not to go a little bit deeper is my shy nature, am the introvert type and till this very moment I find it very difficult to associate much with people around me.
Some traits are still in me till this moment as a result of where I once lived, and no matter how lenient and flexible I later become in life they will still be there and there is absolutely nothing I can do to change that ever again.
But still I made the best out of myself; I choose to be useful to myself, my parents and to change that same environment. Hundreds of people will tell you that their environment made them what they are today, my brother that’s a big lie.
Although their environment had a bad influenced on them but still they are the one that still allow such bad influence to go deeper and now bring forth bad seeds. They could have decided to cut down such bad roots a long time ago before they now begin to produce such bad seeds.
“Whether transition is forced upon us or comes about by personal choice, making it to the other side requires that we intentionally process the loss, celebrate the victories, and plan for the next productive season” –Tim Austin.
I`m not saying that our environments cannot have a very bad influence on us but what am saying is that they are not a dominant one, we can easily alter our destinies along the way. We surely have our own choices in life, it now depend on us all to make the right one when the time come. Remember, where you are today is not as a result of what you did today but rather what you have done a long time ago, so is your decision today will determine what you will become tomorrow, so choose wisely.
“Life presents many choices, the choices we make today determine our future” –Catherine Pulsifer.
Thanks for reading this pious motivational post, always remember that you shape your destiny each moment you made a choice so think deeply before you make the next one because it’s crucial to your next step in life, have a wonderful day.
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Bro I must disagree with you, once character can't be change due to environment.. A person remains who he is no matter where he is... One can only partially adopt to that lifestyle of the environment for sometime but if anything happens, he or she reveals his or her real self...
Environment can't determine who you are except you allow yourself to be over influenced
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There is ds saying that an environment shapes people character.. It didn't influence you to be a nigga, doesn't mean if some situations comes ur way, you won't use what you learnt from d street to some how save yourself from some situations. I'm talking from experience