Maybe we think that we must be a famous scientist, musician, artist, actor, sports figure, or someone else of great notoriety before we can make a change in the life of another person. But that thinking is not true.
Most of the time people are influenced by those that are the closest to them. Children can be affected by their parents, or school teachers, or neighbors, or others in their lives that impact them personally and leave a long-term change within their character or thinking.
Sometimes we may decide to make certain coarse changes within our lives because of the negative influence others may have upon us. Note the comment of one individual several years ago when asked who the greatest influence in his life was: “I’m influenced by alcoholics, drug addicts, theives, time wasters and no hopers.
I do everything i can to never be like them, they influence me in ways that they do not know, mainly because they are either too drunk, too high or too busy theiving or wasting time to even know how much of an influence that they have on my life to never fall into the trap that they have.
Thanks for motivating me, i owe my life to all the worlds losers, lol”
The point is we may be influenced from situations or people within a specific group or category that we might not think that they could affect us so deeply. The source of our changes from being influenced is endless. However, we must determine WHAT we are going to allow to influence us.
Hopefully we can, even if the situation is negative, how we can use it as a positive influence for us and become a better person in the process. The entire world tries to influence us in everything in our lives and our human nature is to let certain things do that, but we must work hard at being selective as to what we hear, see, and think about all matters. However, we’re only human!
QUOTE TO CONSIDER
THOUGHTFUL GEM
"Everyone will touch someone
in some way during their life."
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