Friends

Date: 31 March 2011 08:17:13

How much do we let our friends shape us? Or are they just part of the refining process of who we are? I know I would be a different person if I had had different friends, but does this mean that I don’t know who I am as I only know who I am in relation to other people, or is it true “no man is an Island” and that we are defined by how we interact with others. How can we ever separate what makes us us, from our interactions with others, should we even want to? If I didn’t interact with others (apart from going completely up the wall) I would never learn who I am, it is only in my reactions to others that I learn about myself. It’s learning the difference between letting others form our opinions, and as we knock against each other refining the shape we already are through our interactions with them.