The Influence Of Our Social Environment

Our social environment has a big influence on us. Our social environment includes family, friends, school, work, hobbies, TV, radio, internet, books, magazines, newspapers etc.

If we spend enough time with someone, we begin to behave like them. We pick up their mannerisms, we pick up their way of speaking, their habits, their likes, dislikes, behaviours, we begin to talk like them, we say things that they say, we sound just the way they sound, we inflect the same way they inflect, we begin to dress like them, we wear the same types of clothes etc. It's like we're sponges or chameleons.

If our social environment is negative and destructive, it influences us to be negative and destructive. If our social environment is positive and constructive, it influences us to be positive and constructive.

We should be mindful of the influence our social environment has on us.
We should be mindful of the influence we have on our social environment.

In everything we do, we should seek to benefit others instead of ourselves.

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