Let's Talk: Product of environment

The person that you are and that you have built up over the years is unique to you as an individual. No one can exactly replicate the life you've lived, they could do their best imitate it, but your actions and thoughts on subject and situations still remain unique to you. That being said, you still remain a product of your environment and the five closest people to you. Meaning that you take what you perceive to be the respective negatives and positives of those around you and mold them into yourself. In addition to "stealing" traits from those around you, you also add your own experiences to situations, giving off your own unique take.

The way to describe this idea is actually relatively simple. Think of somebody you are really close to. The way you act towards that person, the sense of humor you might share, or how comfortable you feel in regards to that individual. Those mannerisms are unique to your relationship. Now if you were to take that “act” towards other friends, they might not understand the context as well. A perfect example could be, somebody you are close to acting differently in front of their family versus being surrounded by their close friends. There isn't anything necessarily wrong with having your personality shine in different ways, as long as you aren't directly negatively effecting those around you.

Let’s take that idea one step further and use it in a setting. Clubs, concerts, sports events, people may find themselves falling into the nature of the scene. I’d like to reiterate that that idea is actually fine. Again, as long as you aren’t affecting those around you negatively, this behavior is fine. Relating back to what I wrote in the last paragraph. When you start to lose conscious behavior and fall into the habits of your environment and the actions of those around you, that’s when you fall into the issues of being a negative product of your environment. There isn't even a fine line in between the two instances. You are mature enough or working at becoming mature enough to understand the do's and don'ts around different or new people. The simplest take is to remain fair in your judgement of yourself and how you act in these scenarios. However, if that feels to difficult for you, you may end up becoming a "Victim of circumstance." Which will be the follow up post to this.

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- Noble