Self-reliance May Be Your Unsung Hero

Our daily physical, intellectual, and emotional changes can bring good or bad results. It’s up to us to react accordingly to create the best situations for ourselves.

Not every situation is controllable, but we do our best to avoid or prepare for them. People make this decision every day, and it’s their choice.

We each have internal forces to deal with as well.

While environment (external influence) is in our lives to varying degrees, heredity (internal influence) genetically provides physical traits or mental characteristics. If you inherit specific genes at birth (colorblindness, deafness, psoriasis, etc.), you experience the world from a particular unavoidable perspective through no fault of your own.

So, we’ve got external and internal controllers, but we’re not entirely at their whim. Most of us have an ace in the hole.

Our environment may surround us, and heredity may lie within us, but don’t forget that we also have initiative. We can make decisions if we wish to change. It’s not always easy — damned hard, sometimes.

But we humans are too full of knowledge, dreams, and spirit to float through life, always at the whim of other forces.

We begin life as products of our environment, but we grow and experience and become self-reliant, sometimes overcoming incredible odds. 

We begin life as products of our environment, but we grow and experience and become self-reliant, sometimes overcoming incredible odds. With some exceptions, we can safely and responsibly use our environment to improve our lives or those of our peers.