Tuesday, February 17, 2015

Our Character is Often Molded by Our Environment

   Evolution? I sometimes wonder about the evolution of a single person. The adaptation of each of us to our environment.
   I think of a scripture. "Make no friendship with an angry man; and with a furious man thou shalt not go; Lest thou learn his ways, and get a snare to thy soul." (Proverbs 21:24-25)
   And, I think of the old adage that we are no better than the company we keep.
   We are molded by our environment, to a large degree. What we believe and how we conduct ourselves is much the product of what we are taught and what we observe. It is a large element in determining who we become.
   For all of this being true, the interesting thing to observe would be the exceptions, the times a person is not the product of his or her environment.


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