Sociology?

The ways our parents raised us have a lot to do with who we are now. What pictures hung on the walls of our house in our childhood have affected our tastes and desires, etc. Anyways my point being that there are many influences in our lives.

I have had quite a chance to see many different lifestyles and how people live and grow up. I have seen how replacing the bad influences with good ones really changes a life for the better. However, there's a slight problem here. How does someone who has always had a bad influence really know the good influence? Most of the time people don't see those things and many of those people have a hard time finding themselves, or shall I say, finding their inner selves. That can open up a whole different can also, because not all people who have not found their inner selves have had bad influences... but I figure that there is a slight connection.

I can choose this day to have good influences in my life and to be a good influence to others in their lives. The biggest, best thing I can do for a friend is to invite good influenced friends into their lives! Choose ye this day whom ye will serve because ye cannot serve God and Mammon!

The power of a choice! Have the courage to say no! Have the courage to say yes! Have the power to be you! Don't go with the flow because the flow always goes down. Have the will to rise above the rest! Help a friend in need!
21 Nov 2007