How people you meet can make a difference in your life

Have you given any thought to how you became what you are now?

Let me tell you the answer it is because of the people you met in your life.

How those people helped you to get to the position where you are now?

How did those people got into a position where they have the capacity to make you what you are now?

Excited to find out the answer?

I'm glad at least I made you think of these questions. I know many of you who are reading this thinking about their life and the people they met who made them what they are now.

If anyone tells you that they are self-made don't believe it. Even the people who are telling this are not sure to say this word. Because people build on people. As Humans are social animals one way or another they chose to become whatever they want to become.

Now as I used the word animal, I will take this inference to the jungle.

If you see in a jungle, each animal has its own characteristics. Likewise, we as humans also can relate to this. Now in the jungle as we see we know what animal it is and what are their characteristics.

Since you have the data with you, you will act accordingly with that information. For example, let's take a tiger you will not go near a tiger because you know it will eat you.

Now, what if you don't have the information? Or what if even you have the information but it will change from time to time?

That's the nature of humankind. People try to figure out the characteristics and they act accordingly. But they also know that these characteristics will change from time to time.

Now, these changes occur when one animal connects with other. Characteristics of each animal get exchanged and they absorb these characteristics whichever suits them.

That's how it works. Sounds interesting right?

Aristotle, the Greek philosopher, had strongly stated about the social nature of man: Man is by nature a social animal; an individual who is unsocial naturally and not accidentally is either beneath our notice or more than human. Society is something that precedes the individual.

Man cannot live alone. He must satisfy certain natural basic needs in order to survive. He has to enter into relationships with his fellowmen for living a life. No man can break the shackles of mutual dependence. This begins perhaps between the embryo and the mother and continues till his last breath. The need of the embryo may be more physical than mental, but the mother's need is the other way round.

“Man is by nature a social animal; an individual who is unsocial naturally

and not accidentally is either beneath our notice or more than human.

Society is something in nature that precedes the individual. Anyone who

either cannot lead the common life or is so self-sufficient as not to need

to, and therefore does not partake of society, is either a beast or a god.

Aristotle

Politics, c. 328 BC”

― Elliot Aronson, The Social Animal

“Society friendship and love/Divinely bestow'd upon man,” sang William Cowper, portraying the pangs of the solitude of Alexander Selkirk who had been marooned on an uninhabited island for years.

Now I would like to conclude this article just by saying this. Make sure the people you meet and the thoughts you share make you a good animal in the jungle.

If the characteristics of the other animal do not suit you you can walk out then and there.

That's it for this article folks!!

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