YOUR CHOICE

You were born into this world with specific physical and mental traits. You inherited this from your parents and ancestors. From the moment you were born, however you have lived of an environment of things and people. You begin to learn from this environment and inherited qualities are shaped by everything and everybody around you. You become a person you are physically and mentally through the effects of your heredity and environment.
But there is a third force that influence your life. The is yourself,the choices you make as you live each day,and the lifestyle that you develop through the choices you choose the kind of person you want to be. If you want to be physically strong, that is your choice. If you want to be happy and comfortable in your life it is also your choice. You develop your lifestyles through these choices. You can even change some of these effects of environment on your childhood. If you learn to direct your life skillfully now in areas where you are free to make choices you are ready undertake your preparation in life.

There are some limits set by heredity and environment. People are tall, short fat thin, fair or dark in complexion. Some may even have born with defects. Some are born in poverty, others are in wealth and ease. Any person, however is free to decide if he would eat three meals a day or have just casual bites of junk foods and soft drinks. He can choose sleeping eight hours a day or staying all night with his friends. He can choose to people he can work worthwhile projects or those with whom he can idle up his time. He can spend his time min good healthy sports or in drinking with friends. He makes all the choices.

The consequences of the life style that you have chosen is either to your liking or not. If you want to participate in healthy living throughout your life, you make this choice now. You start observing this rules that you learn and avoiding practices that damage your health. You stop going with people whose own habits do not promote their physical or mental health. It is all the matter of making choices that will assure you from keeping healthy in mind and body. It is all what matter of valuing yourself and acting on this value.