Decisions shape your life.

This week in my sociology class we talked about sociological imagination and sociological mindfulness. Sociological imagination is to be aware that everything and anything around you shapes who people really are. I learned that individuals are influenced by WHERE and WHEN they live. For example, I grew up in the era of no slavery and a black president! This time period in which i'm living really shapes who I am. Living in Buffalo Grove and having an iPhone makes me different from many other kids in the world I believe. It's because I grew up with the friends and family I did; I am who I am today. My parents raised me to never give up. They came from a harsh background of living in Ukraine and coming to America with absolutely nothing and made it to the top. If my parents hadn't instilled on me what they have been doing my whole life, I would be a completely different person. I have been influenced on how they taught me to grow up and which decisions to make.

I guess my grandparents show me a true example of sociological mindfulness. What they do as individuals is very different than how I act primarily because of the huge age difference. I realize that my grandparents are influence by their past and present social setting and the way they act around me impacts my life and shows that while they are influencing my life I am influencing theirs by the way I act towards them.

Speaking of decisions, one of my favorite songs currently, Miley Cyrus sings about the 'Decisions she has to make weather to share the cake or not'. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jQd5OEl1W-Q