One of my teachers in high school
constantly stressed to me the importance of learning to adapt to my
environment. As a sophomore in high school I really didn’t take to heart the
valuable lesson he was teaching me. Life is full of different experiences and
with each experience comes a different environment – some more familiar than
others. Throughout the next year I will be put in situations in different
environments that will be very unfamiliar. Places where I’ll have to abandon my
traditional lifestyle to adapt to the new culture.
Lately I’ve been thinking about how these different cultures
will come with adaptations. People keep telling me that I am going to come back
a different person because of my
experiences. I’ve always though that being in an unfamiliar environment will
always change you in some way. But
does it? Once I heard someone say that they don’t believe that people change,
rather they adapt to their environment.
Now is this true? Do we change as people or do we merely adapt? Maybe we don’t
actually change who we are. And maybe we don’t adapt to the environment we are
in. What if we simply grow from each environment we are thrown into. Maybe each
experience we have gives us a little something extra that we didn’t have
before.
