Here’s a one great phrase: “Tell me who your friend is, and I will tell you who you are”. This saying not only about friends. It means that humans’ personality actually consists of certain things, including friends, place where they live, their hobbies and many other circumstances.
Mainly, people become who they are by means of who are their friends. If you are in a bad-reputation company, and members of it usually skip lessons, chill at parties, treat their parents roughly, once you’ll become one of them with exactly the same behaviour. The main bad is, you won’t be able to notice it. Thankfully, I’ve never been in a bad company, and always have been with good fellows. I can’t say that I'm brilliant in all aspects of life, but I’m trying my best!
Other things that may affect us are our hobbies, home town, city where we live or study, music we listen to. Some of these conditions can make us happier, stronger, open-minded, knowledgeable. I have many cases in my life. Saying about my hobbies - volleyball and equestrian, they always make me hopeful, happier, even stronger (because even if you're good in sport, there can be losses, which make you sad firstly, but later you always analyze it and become stronger and competent). I always return from trainings with a brilliant feeling in my soul (I can’t explain this feeling even in russian).
You should remember that some things in life can also make us depressed, angry, and behave badly with your close friends and relatives. Here’s my bad: I’m addicted to music in ain’t great way. If I listen to sad music it makes me depressed, if I listen to rough music like rock or old-school rap I can become angry and emotionless. Mainly music makes me feel in a neutral or bad way, and rarely in a good way. But always music makes me imaginative (in both ways)!
Nevertheless, we found out that we are very affected by things which are close to us. Sometimes it can make us a better person, sometimes no. But isn’t it a great thing that we can become better by means of things which we can choose?
