2006-07-26 19:53:26 · 13 answers · asked by Paul S 2 in Social Science ➔ Psychology
There's always a point in life when all humans have equal oppurtunity. This oppurtunity is created by determination to succeed which requires sacrifice. The difference between the characters is that one believes all humans are born equal while the other handed himself over to fate.
2006-07-26 20:16:33 · answer #1 · answered by ENWERE E 1 · 5⤊ 0⤋
Choices! Everyone has a story - as long as you live - story ends when you die!
Choices! If you make a choice to live better than the situation and circumstance of your birth and environment - you make the conscious and unconscious choices - those choices lead to actions - those actions can, should, and do lead to the result being a better life environment, situation, and circumstance!
Choices! If you make a choice to enjoy and pursue the use of the drug 'crack' you will end up in the environment, situation, and circumstance of 'crack us.'
Sometimes it's intermingled - as you know - people that are successful - very successful use drugs - all types of drugs!
It's complicated and there are so many variables for successful people who 'indulge' and the opposite!
Also, you have a group that come up from a 'hard life,' become successful, and fall back on some type of drug or path towards 'destruction' and loose everything they worked so hard to achieve!
Go Figure! Life is fluid - ever changing - watch what you assume - make the best choices - and you may come out on the top - if you fall down - get up and try again or try another approach!
2006-07-26 20:30:47 · answer #2 · answered by twinklecomfort 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
It's definitely the (U.S.) American way to attribute it all to personal ambition and will power. But from what I've seen in working with people with homelessness and/or drug or alcohol issues, it's often a very long series of small choices that's drawn them there, with all of the circumstances that affect how those choices are seen.
This can be things like literacy skills (ability and confidence with reading, writing and spelling), access to information, and the opinions of others around them. The single most important thing though, in my experience, is how people see themselves, whether they believe that certain options are actually available to them. The key to really helping, again in my experience, is to help someone grow into another view of themselves. And the younger we can get working on that, the easier it is.
In other words -- if someone sees themself as a potential drug user, he or she is more likely to make the choices that lead there. If someone sees themself as something different and believes that it's really possible for him/herself -- whether they get that image from a book or movie or teacher or parent or worker -- then that person has a much better chance of negotiating another path.
So the next question is: how do we, as a society, view the people who are 'growing up rough'? How do we treat them, in our actions, our words and attitudes, in our legislation? What options do we (through public planning) make available (or difficult)? Personal responsibility is definitely there, but collectively we can do so much more than we are.
2006-07-26 20:54:38 · answer #3 · answered by The angels have the phone box. 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
There is a period in our lives when we decide what we can or cannot do and who we are.
In the first case somebody told him "you can make it" at the right moment, the moment that he was "listening". In the second case at that period somebody told him "you are a looser".
Success sometimes, is just a matter of circumstance but even the people who happened to be successful by chance will ruin it if they believe that they are not worth it.
2006-07-26 22:47:27 · answer #4 · answered by Divra 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
It is odd how people only ever think that if you gorw up rough you must end uo either making it big or on drugs.....
There a baxillions of us who grew up rough who are just getting by... not making it big but not on drugs or alcohol either...
2006-07-26 21:03:01 · answer #5 · answered by wollemi_pine_writer 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
The person who makes it big has drive and ambition. The other gets engulfed in what is happening and what has happened to them, and gives up.
2006-07-26 19:57:48 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
It's like marrying a prostitute to be a wife,rather than to marry a wife who turned out to be a prostitute.
2006-07-26 20:37:19 · answer #7 · answered by gerlooser 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Choices, mistakes, situations, willpower, the people he/she surrounds him/herself with, and moral and ethical values that the person holds...
2006-07-26 20:01:24 · answer #8 · answered by Joshua S 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Inner strength, drive, personal goals...and simply personality...
2006-07-26 19:58:26 · answer #9 · answered by daddydaun 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
You sure are full of deep questions tonight...All I have to say is that you are who you are, what you make of life is all in you.
2006-07-26 19:56:02 · answer #10 · answered by Pork Chop 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋