The Other Wes Moore- Week of April 24th
Are we really only products of our environments? My past answer to this question was that we are products of both our environment and our expectations. We are not ONLY products of our environment, it just happens to influence us to a great degree, but it is not definitive of who we become in life. The final determining factor is our choices: whether or not we choose to be products of our environment, go against it or add to it with our own desires and interests for what we want. We constantly jump hurdles in our life and sometimes we will trip and fall, but we should always do our best to keep pushing forward as much as we possibly can. To constantly believe we are only products of our environment can subconsciously hold us back because we think our environment has a restraint on us, and that is just not true. Yes, there are some things in life we may never achieve, but we do not know what we can or cannot achieve if we never try to begin with; if we believe f...