Me Cocktail

So while talking to a beautiful and intelligent friend of mine I polished the details of another “philosophy” of mine.

It is about what makes up people’s personalities. I firmly believe that other people influence us constantly. Who we all are, is what we all make each other. We get everything from other people. From our likes and dislikes to our mannerisms and speech. We learn everything from other people. We laugh at what other people think is funny. We cry when others would do the same. We are not social robots though. We do not merely use everything we learn. No, we learn and absorb, then we process everything we see and hear. We analyze everything. Then we keep what we want, what applies to us and who we would like to become, and we use it. Everything we disagree with or that isn’t important or does not help us towards who we want to be, we mark it as garbage for deletion.

So, you might be thinking that I believe individuality does not exist because everyone is just copies of other people. Copies of copies. No no no. Although everyone is made up of the influences of others, we all are made up of different mixtures of these influences. We are all our own cocktails of influences. Then, as we grow older, we start doing all this more consciously. We actively shape who we want to become. We add parts to the mixture that we know we want in there. This also gives us more to give to other people.

This is how I believe people come to be. I mean after birth, silly. This is how I am. Everything I am, everything that makes me me, is what makes others who they are. Inside each person, you can see others. You can see them in yourself. And sometimes, when you’re lucky, you can see yourself in others.
So we all walk around this earth; we influence and are influenced. And we slowly mix the cocktails of ourselves