Nature vs. Nurture

Have you notice when people’s life is really crappy? I mean people who have gone there whole life and achieved very little or most of what they have achieved is negative always seem to blame their environment and upbringings. It has to be one of the two if not nurture certainly it had to be nature. Why not make it both?! I’m not going to sit here and say that neither nature or nurture have no effect on our identity or beliefs but they are completely irrelevant to our actions.
Everybody has something that they struggled with or a traumatic event, granted it is not all equally harsh for some reason life isn’t that objective and to some she has more prejudice in some than in others. However, that does not justify your decision to live a life of crime, tragedy, or failure. How can I say such an absurd thing, you ask? Well simple because life has provided vast amount of evidence when we see movies based on a homeless girl who got into Harvard, or a gangbanger acting as a cop in one of television’s best show. And please do not give me a rebuttal that obtains the phrases “one in a million” because although they are not cases from day to day case there are many. It is not always hue or drastic like the ones we here about but there are people out there who cutting off all ties with statistics. It can be as simple as being the first to graduate from college even if it is community college it’s still a step up.
I am not saying overcoming this obstacle and turning them into a positive outcome is a walk in the park but it is not impossible. Being molested as a child doesn’t condemn you to a life abuse or despicable crime. You can sit there and victimize yourself as you never live past that experience or you can learn from it and move on. It’s what you do with that experience that will determine your satisfaction with yourself and the respect others have for you.