The Product of Mental Activity

I'm not exactly sure why it is that I only post on here at times when I should be snoozing. It's my senior year of high school; my 12th and final year of tax-dollar funded public education. Life is never the same. Every task, every situation that comes your way is different. It's always different. Not necessarily because the circumstance itself is completely unfamiliar, but most of the time it is different because we are different in comparison to who we once were. After each difficulty, we change. We grow. We learn. Most of the time anyway. Everyone is developing daily into something new. Yes, we retain most of who we are, who we originally were, but a little piece of us has been added or altered in some way. The affect one individual can have on another just amazes me. The power of a single word or phrase can be incomprehensible. I'm beginning to see just how much of an affect I can have on others. Everything about me sends out a message to others. The words I say, the way I carry myself, etc. They all come together to form me. At least one version of me. The one that others know about, or at least leads them to believe they think they do. There's another part of me locked away down deep inside. Sure, some people who know me extremely well know a little bit about that girl, but they only know as much as I let them know. There is only one who truly knows me. That is what defines me. Not this shell, my appearance. Not just the little bit of me that a few come to know, but the most inner part of me. Just because it's hidden doesn't mean it's all bad, but it probably isn't all good either. It is who I am. Only God knows all of me. I can alter my demeanor but who I am can still remain the same.
That being said, other people's outward actions and reactions can affect us and change us if we want it to. We can decide to become a little different than what we were before. No one is perfect so everyone can be improved upon, the problem lies in knowing what to change and how to change it.
God's word has helped me out a lot with that problem.
A lot of people try to defend some of the things they do(believing they are in the wrong) by saying "Well the Bible doesn't say anything about_____." You'd be surprised at what all the Bible does talk about. It really does have the answers for everything. You just have to take the time to look into it and find out for your self. I did. And I'm better because of it. Not perfect, just growing.