I am 24. Almost 25 now. Time to order a custom made quarter life crisis.  I cant help but to look back and see what made me the way I am now. Good, bad, the whole deal.

My parents, of course and obviously. I appreciate and imitate the social skills and understanding of my mother. Also the love to gather around relatives and yap about nothings. I take the love of exercise and physical sports from my father. Also the rational thinking mind set. I normally does not lose my cool just like him. I also like esoteric  things like reiki and yoga.

The impulse to spend was initially taken from my granny, but the thriftiness comes from father again. I am mostly like him i guess. But not quite.

The next set of influences were local group of friends. Not much taken from there, maybe a liking to get together and laugh of anything and everything.

Another set would be my school, college and MBA friends. Not much from that side too.

The main influencer apart from my parents are the books that I have read across my age. I have really appreciated non fiction variety that makes you think. So just make you think, so make you change your thinking in certain ways.Not rarely have I actually tried what is preached in a book. Not to mention, during my engineering, I have been a avid reader and follower of self help books. I have absorbed random information and ethics from them. They have been my most helpful guides on the road of life.

I have always stood on and hopped around on the shoulders of the giants.

I am changing. I have moved on from blindly following any advice given in the books anymore. Moved on from self help books to true self help. Towards GTD, towards setting goals and finding specific solutions to specific problems rather than copying the algorythms to life from someone else.

I have learnt to question everything in my mind before I accept it. And question my beliefs sometimes. As I experiment, I find a whole new world, waiting to be discovered.

The world that is me.