Growing.

Growing up is probably one of life's hardest things to do. It's the longest learning process that you'll have to go through, and is most likely the biggest one as well. From the day we are born, we have to learn how to live, to survive in the world, as a human being. Although, as an infant, there are not as many responsibilities that are present, due to the fact that you don't have many abilities yet. You haven't grown into your abilities yet. But as you get older, life changes and you have to adjust as well as adapt with it. It's all a learning process, and can be a hard one at that. There are so many things to have to learn, to grow into. As a young person, you can pick up habits or characteristics that define you as a person, when you get older. For instance, if you grow up around a certain group of people, good or bad, you will pick up the language used, the way they go about doing things, or the way they think, and you'll be one of them as well. It's just the way the human race works. If we are around something for too long, we will start to mirror it. We act like it, breathe like it, eat like it, see like it, and hear like it, as if it were what we've done our whole lives.

To make my point clear, Once we adapt and adjust to everything and get good at it, we tend to change again. We start the entire process over. We learn to adjust to having to repeat the process over and over again. Along the way, we pick up habits that stick with us throughout our lives. Habits that make you, you, and me, me.

All I'm asking, is that we choose wisely the habits that we want to pick up. Choose the ones that you know deep down will make you a better person, in the long run. If the short term works with it, then it's a bonus.