You can either be changed by your environment, change environments, or change your environment!
Just because you are in a bad environment does not mean that environment has to change you into something you do not want to be. A mistake that some people make is that they think because a person is born or lives in a bad area that they are a certain way because of it. We all know those people who can walk into a room or party and change the whole environment. Certain people can walk into your life and brighten everything up. On the other hand we all know people who come around and make everything worst. It is almost like enjoying a sunny picnic and having a dark rain cloud poor rain all over your head. When you are in any environment you can do three things 1. You can let your environment dictate your behavior. 2. You can leave your current environment and find a place that is more fitted for you. 3. The final and possibly the hardest choice you have is to change the environment around you. Be that sunshine that brightens up and transforms whatever environment you enter. Are you the sun that brightens your environment or the rain cloud that ruins everyone else's day?
It is important for us to understand the effect that we have on our environments. I don't believe anyone truly wants to be the rain cloud that makes everything worst. Take a look at your inner mirror and understand what kind of person you are. If you look inside and see that your environments changes you then make sure you pick good environments. If you make environments worst then maybe you need to look deeper inside yourself and figure out why. Now if we replace environment with friend we start to see another view because people can be exactly like environments. The people around you can change you more than you may realize, sometimes that can be a good thing and other times you may need to change friends. Look at the friends you have. Would you be okay if people thought of you the way you think of them? They say birds of a feather flock together so you may be more like that "rain cloud" friend than you care to admit. Look at yourself, it is easy to run away from something but it is not always possible. Be an environment changer, make things better and uplift the people, cites, states and everything else around you. You can do it!
R. Dodds
"How does one become a butterfly?" she asked pensively. "You must want to fly so much that you are willing to give up being a caterpillar." ~Trina Paulus
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