Dear God I Should Have Been a Hippie Minus the Drugs and Smelly Non-Showering Stuff Rant

You try and tell me we are not all connected as people. From birth we by instinct copy what we are shown and see. Parents directly affect their kids behaviors. We learn from others around us...our actions are affected by what others do. Our likes and dislikes and fears and strengths are all connected to who we know and who we come in contact with and what we are taught. The beauty in this, is that we are all connected. I can hurt when you are hurting and care about things you care about and laugh when you are happy, or be strong when you are weak. On the other hand there is great disappointment when we never grow up from basing our lives on other people. Maturing means realizing that we are all connected, but understanding that the power lies in ourselves to choose who we are. Though we by nature follow what we have been taught and what we see, we do not have to stay this way...we choose to. Too many times people never actually get to that next step which in essence is taking responsibility for your own actions and instead blame everything on everyone else. It just irks me how people try to be independent and do things on their own...when we as people are not made to live that way...we want to be a part of something and share in people's lives and learn from each other...it's our human nature and is healthy but yet we blame everyone else for what we do. It makes no sense! Somewhere along the line we lose that good connection (due to hurts, etc.) and thus get so self involved making us reactive to our surroundings and forget that when we become adults, our lives and how we react is in our own hands as you are the only one that wakes up and chooses who you are each and every day. No one can control you unless you give them the power to. And once you understand that you control who you are, do me a favor and stop and realize that there are millions of other people still stuck in reactive mode in which your actions are affecting them and maybe take the higher road even when it's undeserved because you were once there too. I have officially changed my name after this post to be more in tune with the flower children. You can now all start calling me Morning Glori.