Nature AND Nurture

My family has definitely nurtured me into who I am today. I am parts of my dad and parts of my mom. Its easy to see, and sometimes almost scary how much were alike, and its all becuase they are the ones who nurtured me, and as I grew up and developed I caught on to how the spoke and how they acted. Of course there are little instances where I wish I was maybe a little bit more like my parents, or even a little bit less like them, but even with these thoughts I know I wouldn't even be close to the person I am today without them, and there nurturing. I am very lucky to have been nurtured by great parents, unlike Danielle from the Oprah show who was neglected as a child. And just like my parents nutured me and had an influence on me making me like them, so have other people in my family like my younger sister. Even though I am older and born first, growing up and being nutured alongside her, she helped to "nuture" me into who I am, and just like how i'm like my parents and I also like my sister. We share many qualities, letting us have a close healthy relationship. But just as much as i'm like my family, and I am also very unique and different from them. There are many things I like to do that they don't, many things I like that they don't, and we even sometimes believe in different values. I don't think that there was a specific time when my parents realized that i was unique, I think as soon as i began to grow and mature (through my early childhood years and after my sister was born) they began to see my unique personality and traits from both them and my sister.
I belive that your nuturing and how you are nutured can be changed, but that your nature is who you naturally are and that sticks with you no matter what. The way you are nutured can change your natural tendencies a little but, but overall you are always who you were naturally. You can't work against your nature becuase your nature was naturally occuring before you brain could function highly enough to have an impact on and it, and with nurture your brain and abilities and tendencies are still to immature to change how others contribute to you nuturing whether you are raised my great postive people who teach you good values and cultures, or parents who don't care and neglect you. You can't make these people change how they act, and therefore making it hard to work against not only nature, but nuture too.