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Heredity or environment?A lot of people ask themselves why I am who I am?Is it because of the genes or environment?Am I lucky that I was raised in this family,what if my roots would be from somewhere else?Would I be completely different if I had met different people and friends during my lifetime?Do I decide who I am,or other people define us? Privilege is an ability of having something that other don’t or can’t have. Money,social status or even love.Our lives are shaped even before we are born.We receive a package which we cannot change, we grow with it and will never know how it would be to receive a different one.A one in which we are from a royal family or a one in which we are abused or do not have any rights.Being raised in the wealthy family or being abused in the childhood is making a difference in a way how you perceive the world. So, we receive a package and the question is if we have any influence on our path later?Can we change our live? There were 2 brothers.They lost their mother when they were small, and their dad was the only one who raised them.He was not the best example as he was abusive, and he drunk a lot. He has never spent time with kids.They had to take care of each other and earn money for food. Father was using kids to get a free alcohol and if he didn’t get what he wanted he was becoming aggressive. Once he hit the younger one so hard that the kid had to spend the whole week in the hospital.Boys grew up, taking care of each other and trying to make ends meet. 30 years later the same brothers the same story, the same environment and heritage.Younger one is a big persona worldwide, representing international company and supporting many charities. He is successful, loving and known by many as a mentor and a great person. He has loving family, what is his priority.He spends most of the time with his sons and always underlines the fact how important they are for him and that he wants to be the best dad. He claims that Family is the purpose of his life. The other brother, older one, he is not prospering as good. He is a drunk, he doesn’t have any job and he abuses his wife. The only thing he cares about is his drink and maybe a joint. One day both were asked the same question: why you are who you are? Younger and Older brother had the same answer- because of my childhood and my dad -He was drunk, he was abusive, and I didn’t have anything as a kid. The younger one added to that: because of him I wanted to prove the world and myself that the most important in life is love and family. I always felt during my childhood that something is missing, part of me wanted to make sure that my family will always have everything they want and deserve. The older one said: I am who I am because of my dad, how could I be someone else if my life example was him- a person who hit me and didn’t give me anything. I was never loved in my live and I don’t know how to love someone else as well. This story is an example that heritage and the environment is not defying us. It has an influence, but it depends on our life journey, where we will end up. Every choice is creating different path and our life is the sum of those paths. With every dilemma and decision, we are making, we are closing possibility on being on the different, parallel path, we can never go back as life goes on. We meet people on our paths and those people have an impact on who we are. Our lifetime is created by infinite number of the decisions we must make. Even after we die, we stay in other minds,we don’t exist anymore but memory after us- stays forever. It is important to be a good person and make one’s mark in the society.