Friday, October 29, 2010

We all have free will to choose our own fate but sometimes due to uncontrollable events we are left with no choices. I believe that personality is affected in many ways including both nature and nurture. Personality forms over times from the very beginning of our lives. Throughout our lifetime that personality can mold and expand. Our personality can in some cases have the potential to be altered and influenced by external events as they occur in our life. Most humans act upon certain events due to memories in the past. Our past can affect how we live and act in the present and future. Everyone is different in the sense of physical looks, opinions, and beliefs but we also share some of those beliefs and opinions with others but not everyone. At the same time, we are all a carbon copy of something else. From what we wear to what we eat to how we talk. We picked it up from someone or something else such as our culture, friends, parents, influence, etc. Physically we are all unique. No physical human body is the same. However, we allow external stimuli to influence everything else. Early civilizations main purpose in life was to survive and they did whatever they can to do that. It was an endless cycle of obtaining the basic needs of survival (food, shelter, water, clothing) and then reproducing to create the cycle all over again. Weve come a long way since then and now we live above our means and strive for more than just basic needs in our lives such as Abraham Maslow’s hierarchy of needs suggests. If we look at it that way are we just trying to seek pleasure in our lives? In a way, yes we are. As animals our only purpose in life is to survive and reproduce to keep the cycle going. But now as people who are up at the top of the food chain and the most superior beings on Earth we see life for more than just that. We see our life needs as growing, learning, following goals and dreams, and climbing to our fullest potential if we so choose. Human beings aren’t born from their mother’s womb into society as being good or evil, we are born into the world with a neutral, clean slate and our own free will decides which way we go. Everyone has all capabilities of good and everyone has all capabilities of doing evil, but we decide what capabilities we choose. Everyone has done something in our life at least once that our society, religion, morals, friends, family, constitution, government and/or laws claims is wrong. But who sets the boundaries to what is good and what is bad? What gives anyone the right to judge those? The simple answer is no one because we all have free will to do, think, speak and act in whatever way we want to.

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