{"id":5187,"date":"2019-01-16T11:13:19","date_gmt":"2019-01-16T17:13:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.msabrookhaven.org\/literary\/?p=5187"},"modified":"2019-01-16T11:13:19","modified_gmt":"2019-01-16T17:13:19","slug":"milestones","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.msabrookhaven.org\/literary\/2019\/01\/16\/milestones\/","title":{"rendered":"milestones"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>we start with learning how to function as a normal human being.<\/p>\n<p>our body takes care of the basics; eating, sleeping, breathing, etc., but at sometime we start to hit milestones. rolling over, walking, talking, going to school. From the moment we are born we are taught how to live as a person.<\/p>\n<p>my question is, what makes someone&#8217;s personality different from that of their friends.<\/p>\n<p>obviously there&#8217;s up bringing. something that differentiates me from everyone else is the people and environment that was around me. I&#8217;m a collage of my family&#8217;s and friends traits. i&#8217;m also a big believer that while those things can determine a person&#8217;s personality and mindset, it isn&#8217;t always the determining factor. some serial killers were brought up in nice, respectable households. and some people grow up in a horrendous house and town, and turn out to be the sweetest people i&#8217;ve ever gotten the pleasure to meet. not to say this has to be the case with everyone.<\/p>\n<p>genetics also apparently factor in. family traits can carry on, same with mental illness, but that doesn&#8217;t mean it accounts for everything. Even identical twins only have up to about 50% of the same personality traits\/interests.<\/p>\n<p>the last factor of sorts ties in with environment, but it&#8217;s life events. positive or negative events can sway a person and how they act. anything from a transcending trip to a traumatic memory trigger the shift.<\/p>\n<p>all this said, sometimes a bad person is just destined to be a bad person. same with good people. people can change, yes, but they have to make that conscious effort. maybe it is out of their control. who knows.<\/p>\n<p>nature vs. nurture is a whole debate.<\/p>\n<p>personally i can&#8217;t choose to believe either is the right answer. all of these factors seem to clash too much for either to the one thing. i wish it was that simple. to have a kid, raise them &#8220;right&#8221;, give them my whole heart, and them go out into the world and be the best person ever. sadly, that&#8217;s just a risk you have to take. have a kid, do the best you can, and hope for the best. i think that&#8217;s one of the most terrifying parts about the whole building a family thing. other than messing a kid up. even if you they turn out to be the next notorious serial killer, you have that unconditional love. or at least most parents do. that&#8217;s also scary. to love someone so much. not ready for that no sir.<\/p>\n<p>i&#8217;ll just stick to raising my sweet pup, being able to sleep well at night knowing i can&#8217;t mess up bringing a dog into this world.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>we start with learning how to function as a normal human being. our body takes care of the basics; eating, sleeping, breathing, etc., but at sometime we start to hit milestones. rolling over, walking, talking, going to school. From the moment we are born we are taught how to live as a person. my question &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blog.msabrookhaven.org\/literary\/2019\/01\/16\/milestones\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;milestones&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":33,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.msabrookhaven.org\/literary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5187"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.msabrookhaven.org\/literary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.msabrookhaven.org\/literary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.msabrookhaven.org\/literary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/33"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.msabrookhaven.org\/literary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5187"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blog.msabrookhaven.org\/literary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5187\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5203,"href":"https:\/\/blog.msabrookhaven.org\/literary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5187\/revisions\/5203"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.msabrookhaven.org\/literary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5187"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.msabrookhaven.org\/literary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5187"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.msabrookhaven.org\/literary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5187"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}