YOU BECOME WHO YOU’RE AROUND
I’m sure we’ve all heard the term you are what you eat. As a young person or a child you might be confused. If I accidentally eat a watermelon seed will I turn into a watermelon or will the watermelon grow in my belly? I remember deeply pondering this when I would eat a seed from a fruit or I would swallow my gum because I didn’t want to spit it out. Now, as an adult that term still exists, but we understand it fully. We understand if that you eat too much of a certain food it may cause you to feel a certain way. Logic. But now there’s a phrase that is similar and it goes something like this, “you become who you hang around” or “you act like those around you.” I remember this transition happening when I was a teenager. Always wanting to fit in and be cool and do whatever the newest trends were. Let’s not talk about wanting feathers in our hair just because the popular girl did it. But now I see that this is even more crucially important in my own little family. Not only do I becom...
