How society can effect people

Yesterday with two other friends we talked about our childhood life style. One of them is Paulo from north part of Rio de Janeiro city in Brazil and other is Tim from Hannover City in Germany. They grew up with completely different life style. Paulo told me that in his neighborhood at least one person per week was killed by gun around 1982 to 1990, which it was most critical age for him to get effect by society. He also said sometime their family were fight for their life, and the mugging, drug-traffic, gun shooting, abusing kids and rapping were every where. He learned how to take care of himself since 7 years old and he was mugged several times by different street gang and he saw actual shooting and murder in street. His family move from Rio to San Paulo when he was 18 years old and then his family life became safe and stable.

Tim’s story was totally different. He grew up in safest area in city that most people in his neighborhood were educated and he never actually had real fight and he never even saw it before age 15. Most horrible time he ever had was a punishment that he got in school for running in the hall or jumping from wall.

I was thinking whole day after this conversation about the effects of society on people. Paulo has really quiet personality, kind, funny, flexible, understanding, strong, social smart, reasonable, forgives you easy, helps you most the time, no complain, sometimes not on time, social, simple out side, complicated inside, easy worker and completely grown up. Tim has unique character and he has his own idea for every thing, always busy even seems he doesn’t do anything, becomes upset fast, takes time to forget you, picky, respectful, polite, math smart, always follow the rules, lives in surface, honest, dependent, family guy, little isolated, not good talk but good listen, serious, on time, complicated out side, simple inside, little childish behavior and hard worker.

Both of them are good researchers and nice coworker. I think it is good to consider these examples and start to know ourselves better. And learn how to pick up the good part of thing in society and educate the other lake part that society can’t give it to us. Written by Mohammad Hosseini