Where do they get this stuff? Some people say that you are a sum of all of your influences. For the most part, I agree with these people. I have had many influential people in my life. I believe my friends, people I have worked with, schoolmates and even television has helped mold me into who I am today, but I think the two most influential people in my life were my parents. My mother …showed first 75 words of 1269 total…

…showed last 75 words of 1269 total…alcohol could be so bad, that she wanted nothing to do with it ever again. After hearing the stories my mother and my father have preached to me, I think I had it pretty easy growing up. Now I just wonder how I'm going to handle my kids someday. I know its going to reflect my youth, and I can only hope that I take the best of what both my parents have given me.