Journal Entry 14: Heritage

Heritage is a behavior or custom that your family and location passes down to you. Some of these may include religious beliefs, habits, or the sets of morals you have. I think the most important part of your heritage is your morals and beliefs, because it affects everything else about you, and shapes you into the person you are today. Personally, I have not retained much of my heritage. For example, I was taught at an early age to study hard as a student, because it will determine the rest of my life, and I have the rest of my life to have fun. I believed this up until like, middle school, but now the idea is ridiculous to me. When you are a kid is the only time in life to have fun, because you are free of the pressures of an adult, and you don't have to really worry about money, or food. Also, relative to what comes after, studying in high school is not really all that important. It's the classes you take in college that really matter, because those are the subjects you are good at or enjoy doing, and it will most likely define your job later. Another belief that was conveyed on me was that you must do whatever is best for yourself or your family, instead of friends. Although it is true that family stays with you forever, and friends are usually just temporary, it doesn't make sense to ditch your friends or not do nice things for them at a cost to yourself, because that would leave you with no friends at all. Also, friends are unlimited, there is a world of people to make friends from, so when you get in a fight with family, you have people to go to for support, until you are calmer. Friends help you through most of the tough times in your life, and I think that friends in general, not any one or few particular friends, are more important than family.