This is a request from a friend.

I wanted to wrote about how people change, you don't really realise yourself until you look back at the things you used to do or what you used to look like. But I mean all of this is just a part of growing up- finding out who you really are and really want to be. Making it's just taking yourself and your career a lot more seriously than before, or maybe it's the environment that has shaped who you are now.

I was thinking about all this, and I wondered what do you think changes a person more? Themselves? Or the influences around them? Because I feel that the person themselves wouldn't change who they were if they were accepted and felt that this is who they wanted to be. But the influence for changing themselves must have come from somewhere else, they wouldn't change themselves purely randomly? Because how would they know what to change to become?

I know this is all just part of finding who you are, but I wanted to just ask other people: without the modern influences of today- magazines, film, tv programmes, media, news etc. Do you really think people would change themselves without all this pressure to be someone they aren't?

Sorry for a short post- it was something that was requested from a friend, and I wanted it to be not a "Ellie rambling"; but more an input for other people. Also sorry for the inconsistent posts: internet in this house is so unreliable!

Ellie