Who are we?
Who are we if not just the culture in which we were raised?Are we our lineage
our ancestry
are we just our DNA - maybe?
Are we the sum of our own experiences?
Are we our family's traditions?
Are we the music we were exposed to
the TV programmes they
watched - they watched them
so we did.
Did the jobs our parents had define us?
Did the wisdoms they passed onto us
their religions and their beliefs
in a kind of subliminal inherited wisdom
of rights and wrongs
how things should be done
how to carry yourself
how to be in this world...
did that define us?
Were all these elements imprinted onto us by our family
our people
our culture
our upbringing?
Growing up you may not have realised this
or - if you did
you might not have liked this
how they did things
their choices
their ways
but these ways were already instilled in us.
Growing up you might have felt the need to rebell
but you would only have been rebelling against what you were destined to become
or we're already
these standards which had been instilled in you
which you in time
will pass on to your children.
After all...
Who are we?
Who are we if not just the culture in which we were raised?
