by Alyaa El-Kafrawy

Created on: September 29, 2009

Yes and NO

Yes on the sense that our environment plays a rule in shaping us. Bring two boys with the same level of education and creativity and let us assume they are identical. Put one of them in a room full of papers, pens, colors, clips , water, carpets, .and other tools, and put the other on an empty room with nothing but him in it. Now leave them both for quiet sometime and come back and check on them. You'll probably find the one with the tools made something out of them and the other one did nothing. Now does that say that the one who did stuff is more creative!. Not at all, he just had more things to deal with! If you had put one of them in a beach theme and the other on a party one, you'll probably find one drawing umbrellas and other making funny hats!

Same goes for the famous story of Tarzan! Normal human being lost in a jungle. And what is the output. An Abe man!

It makes all the sense in the world. Environment has a major effect on who we are, but it's not the only thing that affect our behavior or who we are.

And here comes the No part. Our personality is truly affected by the environment we live in but we were also affected by other parameters like our wealth, our health , our family , our friends......the list goes on forever. And even if we considered all these stuff as our Environment still that's not what we are a product of. We are actually a product of our choices! We choose to live the way we are living now. If we were poor we get to have a choice to accept the fact we are poor or to try and be rich. If we were born with a missing limb, we choose to live life crying over our loss and looking at the down side and complaining about what we Can't do. Or simply to stop complaining, accept reality, be thankful with the other three we have and making the best out of what we can actually do!

It's always your choice and when it's your choice it's also your responsibility. No one will be blamed for other people actions or it will be unfair. So we might as well stop blaming others for our mistakes and start taking responsibility for our own actions. And by others I don't mean people, I mean our Environment that we claim to be a product of.

If It was true that we are a product of our environment then how come I've three sisters that lived in the same house with the same parents, went to the same school and had the same family and yet are completely different!

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