The Human Journey

I believe that the human journey is to create your own path, this means to make your own decisions and this will not always be easy. It will likely take time and effort to be able to reach the level of success you choose depending on how hard you work and how you play your opportunities. This can become difficult, especially while growing up, because of the influence others have on us. For example, parents can largely impact a child's growth by pushing them towards one career path or another. Although someone's parents are a big part of their life their peers also can influence how they act because everyone wants to fit in,”if you compare yourself with others, you may become vain and bitter”(Ehrmann n.p.).To break free of this outside input and to do what you want is the only way to make yourself truly happy and able to be your own person. It may seem like there is always one clear route through life, to …show more content…
And that is why I succeed.” The only way to be successful is to be yourself and to do what you want to do.It is ideal to have a strong understanding of what it is you want. Most people hope to accomplish their own identity and freedom throughout life, as well as monetary desires, and this can only occur by believing in yourself, you must be able to take risks and not be destroyed by a loss, as portrayed in IF, “make one heap of all your winnings and risk it all on one turn of pitch-and-toss, and lose, and start again at your beginnings And never breathe a word about your loss.(Kipling,n.p.)” Many of the risks that we will need to take in life will be made on our own and if “you can trust yourself when all men doubt you,”(Kipling,n.p) it will show that you have established an identity for yourself, one of the key points on the human