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When we’re young, we’re surrounded by tons of people who we find ourselves looking up to (not just in the literal sense) and we find qualities that we like and try to make them our own. We see superheroes in cartoons and try to be like them. My brother really wanted to be like Superman and would wear around this red blanket as a cape for the longest time when he was really young.

At first it’s a cartoon or fictional character that we want to be like, then as we get a little older it becomes actual people/friends that we know or meet. Before you know it, you find yourself becoming someone that other people look up to. People who will want to be like you because they see something in you that they admire or want in their own lives.

Thing is though, do we know that other people are watching? Do we know that there could be people out there who look up to us but have no idea? If that’s the case, then how are we living? How are we behaving not knowing that people are watching? Some people might not care and say “I’m just going to be me and it’s their problem if they’re trying to learn from me,” while others may say “I need to act and live so that others can take away postive things from me and not negative aspects.”

It might be nice to know that people are looking up to you, but if you really think about it, it’s really a scary thing. What you do could affect the lives of countless numbers of people that you encounter for better or for worse depending on what those people see in you. One of the greatest things that someone can do, in my opinion, is to work with children. When working with children, you gain a lot of influence over their lives in how they act, how they think, and how they learn. Teachers truly have an incredible job by commanding such influence over children. They will shape the way a child grows up, almost as much as the parents do.

People are watching us, and learning from us. Whether you know or not, people will watch and learn. They’ll pick up our good habits, and more often than not our bad habits. While I’m not telling anyone to change who they are because people may be watching, I do think that people should be aware that someone is watching. If you knew that what you said and what you did would be watched and emulated by someone else, how willing would you be to do that thing? We were all in a position to learn from others, and now people may be in a position to learn from us. Remember that.

For those interested, read “The Five People you Meet in Heaven.” It’s definitely a good read.