what makes you who you are?
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Mindset
Perception Everything -
the people I chose to look up to affected me greatly...
how shocked was I when I watched them fall from grace. -
my family, environment in school and the many setbacks i have in my life.
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it's your ultimate decision at the very end. there's this quote that goes something like 'sow an act reap character...' blah blah i'll try and get it.
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'sow a thought, reap an act
sow an act, reap a habit
sow a habit, reap a character
sow a character, reap a destiny'
-samuel smiles
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Hmm..Originally posted by SingaporeMacross:the people I chose to look up to affected me greatly...
how shocked was I when I watched them fall from grace. -
My father sperm and my mother egg.
The setting: In a hut on a rainy night. -
I see.
I think.
I learn.
Therefore I am. -
Makes you wonder why the previous generation likes to complain about us when it is them that makes us.Originally posted by coffeeortea:i realised that this topic would be destroyed if posted in chit chat, thus, more appropriate if created in Aunt Agony, it is not so much of an agonizing topic to me, but more of a healthy and informative discussion on what each different individual thinks what makes themselves who they are.
i think my family makes me who i am, for i have been living with them all my life (at least for 16 years, im only 17). the way that have brought me up, the experiences that i have been through with them, they mould and shape me into who i am today. they play the biggest roles in my life.
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I think we learn to adapt as we grow. We are who we are because of our foundation; and this characterization of our personalities are ingrained by our immediate environment where we grew up in.
Decisions are made based on the personal choices from the options presented to us - and like it or not, sometimes we do have to conform to the general acceptable society code of conduct although our inner being scream otherwise.
As for who we make ourselves out to be... sometimes we have to make a little compromise in order to avoid (if we want to) controversy.
Every action, every thought and every fragment of an imagination would bring about a reaction. We are thus governed perpetually by our Consciousness... that is, once something invades our mind, nothing can ever slip us by or simply disappear. Caught up as we are in our own little private 'bubble', we may find this hard to comprehend. When denial sets in, there is a missing 'link' or a void that we experience; due to the seperation of the consciousness and our selves. In reality and in the higher echelons of consciousness... there is no void, and time ceases to exist.
Reactions to past thoughts and actions become our fate, destiny and karma. Our fates are simply the reactive effects of choices remembered by our soul. The personality often doesn't see beyond its own life for sources of current conditions, especially if the resulting effect is negative.
Perhaps this is why I feel that the people we encounter in our everyday lives influence the choices that we make to a very great extent. They can be our neighbours, our friends, our lovers, our parents... an acquaintance, or even the person who sat beside you on the bus earlier. For this reason alone - I would never view people whom I know online as "strangers secure in the anonymity of the cyber-world". Whilst its true that we may not be able to readily believe or bring close to heart what we cannot see in person... I do believe that behind every word posted, every hug and emotion encompassed in a tiny icon - there is a living, breathing being, and he / she would somehow feature (if they haven't already) in our lives; even for a while.
Our thoughts make things happen.
What you believe, is what you achieve...
What you imagine - is what you become. -
Hmm...
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i like this, thanksOriginally posted by tut4nkh4m3n:'sow a thought, reap an act
sow an act, reap a habit
sow a habit, reap a character
sow a character, reap a destiny'
-samuel smiles
=) -
so it seems that nature and nuture are both equally important to forming us...