Influence

Many things influence can influence you on a day to day basis. They can affect you immensely or very little, but none the less they make an impact on you life. "Influence may be the highest level of human skills." Reading this quote, you might think that the person who wrote it had the notion that people are the only things that influence, but if you look deeper you may find a stronger meaning. It could all begin with the person you admire and whether or not it is for the right or wrong reason. Some on can be rich, but the way they have obtained it may have been shameful. They might have stolen the money or obtained it in a wrong way. These things may look appealing to others because it looks like the easy way or the "smart way" to get through life easily. Influences such as theses should not exist and yet they do. A child may look up to an athlete and even idolize them at times, but it ends in a let down when that person does something wrong because they are only human.

Seeing someone go down the wrong path may not always end in a person being wrongly influenced. If looked at in the right direction, it could teach a person not to follow in their steps because they have already watched it happen in someone else's life and seen the outcome. People are not the only things that can have an affect on people but also through the things they do or say. Jimi Hendrix once said, "You can't mess with people's heads, that's for sure. But that's what music's all about, messing with people's heads." Music has a great deal of influence on people, it can take you somewhere far away any. It can help you face you problems and overcome them or even change your mood.

People with high power such as a president or prime minister may affect you through a speech they give. It can change your opinion which may help have that affect on other people later.

My parents have a great deal of influence on my life. They moved here from another country where standards are much different. They tried to raise me the right way from the start and continue to do some no matter how hard it gets for them.

Being influenced can come in many shapes and sizes but in the end it all comes to you. It comes down to how you want your life to be. If you want to be hard working then those are the people you look up to. Choosing who or what you allow to influence you is a very important decision, therefore