Birmingham, Alabama
16 years ago
Wednesday, July 29, 2009
July 30- Success or Failure
While reading Our America, I never would imagine living like that and still being up to normal tasks like going to school, making friends or even just leaving the house. Some people assume because you were raised in a bad neighborhood, you're a bad person or if you're raised in a good neighborhood you're destined to be successful. Does anyone think that where they were raised destined them to be successful or unsuccessful? Why? Do you think if you were raised somewhere else it would have made a difference in your education, sport or personal goals?
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I have been moving since I was born. I was born on 46th and California and moved to 68th and Pulaski to 95th and Kedzie. I don't really think that where I was raised help me to be successful or unsuccessful. I think that it helped to shape who I am. If I wasn't raised the way I was then I wouldn't be the person I am. However I don't think that where I was raised effects how capable I am in making it in the world.
ReplyDeleteI think it doesnt matter where your raised you will do good in life. Every body is all ways good at something. Some schools dont have the same stuff as other schools. People learn differnt and the were taught differnt.
ReplyDeleteI feel that a lot of the people who are raised in a horrible environment tend to be bad people. I no its a stereo type and all but really, if you come from a bad place don't you have bad ideas and bad morals and everything? Because thats all you were brought up with. I don't know maybe thats just me. But a lot of people who come from nice neighborhoods are failures. I guess it really doesn't matter where you come from. I know plenty of people who have had good lives as kids who couldn't even make it through high school. It all depends on the person that you are and the type of things you do in your life that make who you are.
ReplyDeleteI grew up a few blocks away from Englewood. Anyone who lives in Chicago would tell you that newspapers and news put a bad light on this specific area of chicago. I wont say that this environment deemed me to be unsuccesful or "bad". Evveryone has to find out what fits into the person that they want to be and what they want to accomplish in their lives. If you want to be succesful it probally isn't a good idea to sell drugs all of their lives. You have to learn from mistakes on what you wwant to do and what you have to do to acheive that goal. Has your environment set you up for failure and how do you get out of that situation?
ReplyDeleteMy environment was always changing. It wasn't that it set me up for failure it just made it harder. Jumping from place to place made it hard to get used to new things each time I moved. But I agree with k.o. that you make your own success by the actions you take.
ReplyDeleteI feel where ever you come from its a given that you need to do the work that is needed to be successful. I think it is stereo typical to think were someone comes from is a factor of them being successfull. If a person wants to be successful they will put in the necessary work.
ReplyDeleteI grew up in a nice area in Chicago but doesn't mean I didn't run across people who I never imagined would do something violent. I myself don't believe that where you are raised determines your success because I know people who lived in bad situations who are doing great things and I know people who lived not far from me who are just no doing so well. I think it depends on the person's strive to achieve something better.
ReplyDeleteNOT TRUE! i live in one of the roughest neighborhoods in chicago. Just 3 days ago my neighbors house was broken into.Do i think im going to be successful; absolutely. I agree with Jen, it doesnt set me up for failure it just complicates things and makes it harder. It all depends on what concious decesions we make that will effect our future. Some will make it harder some easier and some we cant change.
ReplyDeleteBeing raised in different neigborhoods shapes us as different people yet, I will never forget where I came from,and how I was raised. That is why wherever I am living I will live by my style and not try to be like my neigbors I see the world differently and yes a person can be shaped differently depending if they live inside or outside the box. . .who agrees????
ReplyDeleteI never really moved around too much. However when i did move, I noticed the change. I moved from a lower class neighborhood on the southside to a middle class town in Mississippi. Everything seem to be safer and more accesible than Chicago. Nevertheless I was much younger than I am now. I love Chicago, the city can teach you specific lessons that you can take anywhere you go.
ReplyDeleteI love living in Chicago. I don't think I could ever move away from here. I've learned so much from moving to city to city. From Brighton Park, Westlawn, and then Evergreen Park. Each city was completely different from the one before hand and it really taught me everything I know about life.
ReplyDeleteI feel that you will be who you choose to be regardless of your sorroundings. You can identify right from wrong; therefore you choose the path that you want to follow. I don't think that people should be labeled according to their nighborhood, just because you live in good doesn't mean you're good. I always lived in a quiet neighborhood, all my neighbors have been and are seniors. That doesn't necessarily mean that I'm calm, because I like to party and play sports. What do you do in order to not loose your personality in a neighborhood where you cant identify yourself with?
ReplyDeleteI feel that certain people dont fit into their neighborhoods and that's a great thing. If you can find your individuality among the norm then your one step closer to leading a more comfortable life. Does anybody find it hard to set yourself aapart from your neighborhoods?
ReplyDeleteIt's been hard to take myself away from my first neighborhood because that was what I was used to and where I was born but you just get used to it after a while. I don't really feel like I like where I live right now so I'm excited to move out and move into the city because I love it there so much more.
ReplyDeleteI agree with Kelly because I don't fit in with my neighborhood. It's quiet and calm and I'm wild and loud. I like to party and I can't stand people who just have a scheduled life, like the people who live around me. I like to wake and have no clue on what I am going to do today and just go about life step by step, living in every moment. So I find it easy to leave my neighborhood and venture elsewhere.
ReplyDeleteNo, I actually feel opposite. I feel that everything happens for a reason. I was put into the nieghborhood that I was put into for a reason. And it benefits me in unusual ways. How does is benefit you?
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