Many things in life influence how I learn and grow. My parents influenced my life first by their instruction in right and wrong. I immediately knew when I did something wrong.
School was my next influence. My study of world events shaped my image of the world and gave me a better understanding about how to work in the world when I became a working adult.
As an adult, working and retired, I have seen many events that shaped my feelings about life in general. I witnessed, through television, the first moon landing in 1969. I heard on the radio and later on television about the assassination of President John F. Kennedy, the assassination of Martin Luther King Jr., the assassination of Robert F. Kennedy Sr., and in this century, the destruction by terrorists of the World Trade Center in New York City, the attempt to destroy the Pentagon, and the plane crash in a field in Pennsylvania.
Television shaped my life through it’s horrors of actual life and how America handled those key events.
Television also shaped my life through entertainment. I wasn’t around yet when the first television came on the market, but it was still in the early stages when I came along. Television also had a strong influence in my writing. While watching television I told myself I could write a certain episode I watched better than what I had just seen and proceded to do so. I was eight years old. Thus began my writing career.
You could say that everything I heard and saw influenced who I am today; what I believe, who I am, and even the friends I’ve made throughout my life. I know what I like because of what influenced me through the decades of my life.
Thank you for reading.
valerie writes 
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