So how do you think you got the way you are today. Was it all nurture( the way you were raised and your life's experiences) or was it nature( your inherited genes) or was it a combination of the two. I happen to find this quite fascinating lately as I get to know my 35 year old daughter. It absolutely astounds me to find so many of my traits in her when I didn't have anything to do with her upbringing. She is smart and beautiful and moody and so many other aspects of who I am. That part was of course all nature. If there are any things that she does that I don't like I blame her mother for the way she raised her. Probably not fair but then again life isn't necessarily fair. I can see lots of nature stuff in me. Like I get my fondness for alcohol from my mother's Irish side and I inherited some of her artistic bent. I got my grandmother's laugh from my father's side and my poor memory. Things like my work ethic and my making my bed I got beaten into me from childhood.
Which brings me to the Superbowl. I watched it and it was good but that was probably the only game I watched all year. Are people nurtured into being sports fans by their parents or is there a gene for that. Maybe a couch potato gene? I wonder about the players. Were they nurtured to be athletes or was it in their genes. Maybe they just saw an easy way to get rich and decided to play football cuz they were huge. I really don't know but I do wonder. Thank God it doesn't keep me up at night!
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- My life has been varied & hectic. My wife and I have been married for 29 years. Suffice it to say that I look forward to retirement but do enjoy working here. http://www.noao.edu/kpno/
This reminds me of a conversation I had with my sister one time. She was hoping her baby didn't wind up with her big nose and I told her that her husband's was small, so it would even out. She did a double take and for a second, she was actually speechless. And then she asked me, "Do you really think that it works like that?" I had forgotten that genes don't work like averages. But you know, I didn't realize Ernest Hemingway wrote short stories either until I got half way through one of his books and thought, "this doesn't make any sense." So, back to the subject...consider Bode Miller -- the result of a serious collision of genetics working in opposition of upbringing?
ReplyDeleteThis reminds me of one of the fundamental dilemmas in my life...when I go to the doctor's office do I sit in the waiting room, or do I wait in the sitting room?
ReplyDeletePersonally, I feel nurture has nothing to do with a 6'6" 375 lb. nose tackle...that is nature's mutation and also a way of saying stay away...like that rattle on the end of some snakes.