“People don’t change they get used to their surroundings.”  

By: Delia Acedo          

This quote means that people’s surroundings affect the person’s personalities. If you surround yourself with negative people you will be drawn to those negative things. If you choose to do those bad things you will follow a life where your decisions are bad. If you have positive vibes around you will be a better person. Having those positive people around will make you question your ways and start to rub off on you. So when people do things a certain way it's hard to reprogram yourself. You need to surround yourself with what your goal is.For example if you want to start doing good in school because you are tired of being a bad student you need to end all associations with those negative vibes. You need to start surrounding yourself with people who do their homework and work. You will then do it with them and  then little by little you’ll realize that you’ve grown into what their goal was because they were surrounding themselves with those vibes the whole time. You then start thinking that that person was in you the entire time. You didn’t become a different person you simply changed your habits. You are still the same person you were a year ago, two years ago, yesterday. This is true to me because people used to say I changed and that i wasn’t the same person anymore. I just started to really listen to my brothers and kind of mimic their actions. I started to become a more family person and value little things I took for granted. In a way became a more open person because i communicated better with them. I just love the fact that i came up with something truly believe in.