Expectations or Environment Revisited
Are we products of our expectations or environment? When I originally was thinking about this question I thought that we were products of our expectations. I thought that no matter if your environment is good or bad you can work around that to achieve the expectations that you set for yourself or that someone else sets for you. I believed that people can overcome their environment. I still think this is true to an extent. The environment you have can be changed, but so can the expectations. My home town, the environment I grew up in Now when I reconsider this, I think that our environment plays very heavily into our expectations. Our expectations originate from our environment. For example, my parents raised me to believe I can do the impossible with my life. My environment at home was loving and extremely supportive, but my parents did not go easy on me, they had expectations that came from the extremely supportive environment that they were creating. They taught me ...