When you think how much your alike your parents often the phrase nature versus nurture comes up. We may genetically be like our family but we could also be influenced by others around us. I think I look like my mom based on what others tell me but I display more positive traits from my dad but am unique too and pretty much the opposite from my mom personality wise.
My dad and I are more alike than my mom and me. My mom and dad can both contain a hint of stubbornness to them. I can be the same way and when something isn’t progressing how I desire it to, I'll get all quiet but all persistent. My dad and I also both get annoyed at people that are being irrational or dumb. We’ll often share stories about it with each other, but we don’t go off on the people or be explicitly rude. This enters in many forms like watching bad drivers, disruptive students, teammates, and slow hallway walkers. It’s not a personality trait but multiple of my mom’s friends and our family find that I look a lot like her, I don’t observe it but just in a general way.
But there are many differences between my parents and me. My mom is an extremely social, extroverted person. She hates being cooped up at home and alone time isn’t much of a necessity for her. I however do love being with my close friends and interacting but I need my own time alone unless it’s with my dog. I enjoy a relaxing and productive day at home. I don’t need to constantly go out and be in the company of others. My dad is more about reality than dreams and very realistic and goal-focused. He graduated early from high school, went to a community college, and mainly worked in high school then almost joined the air force for good education benefits. I’m also realistic but could compromise a bit for my dreams like paying a little bit more to go to a good college right out of high school instead of saving money and transferring. But that’s only if I have good options to go too.
My mom was never really set on a particular ambition, and kind of just went with the flow of life and where it took her. She gave birth to kids young and accepted jobs when they were convenient and took a while for her education. In high school, she was mainly social and never really tried to figure out what she may want to perform in the future. But I have wanted to be a Physician's Assistant since about eighth grade and go to a college in California towards the coast or in southern california. Knowing the job requirements I’ve been wanting to pursue schools with amazing Biology programs and take classes in high school to prepare me. My parents both raised me at different times with their own styles and even my step parents may have an influence on what makes up who I am.
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