Why you are who you are

Innatism or empiricism
Individuals seek answers regarding their behavior when probed on their performance. Why they do what they do, how they are the way they are and what drove them to get where they did. Self-appraisal is a healthier option; nonetheless soul searching can be unquestionably instigated by the innate versus empirical debate when people are asked why they are who they are.

• How is it that you are so beautiful?
• Your aptitude puts all of us to shame!
• How did you get promoted so easily at work?
• How do you manage to excel in studies always?

Some evolve to where they do, others lag behind. Some turn into fashion models, others doctors, several into bartenders and numerous never get anywhere. The world has its share of endowment as well as botches. The search for etiology of talent or the lack of it has inspired several theories of human ability.

The screenplay of life

The human mind is an influential apparatus, highly capable and adept; it can fashion marvels as well as facilitate demolition at its whim.  Cognitive abilities that it originates are forever tinted with an emotional tone. The subjective color of this emotion is known as mood. Moods may well be understood by shade; dark, bright, grey, dull, shining and occasionally blinding too. Long lasting and repetitive moods paint character. They transform the persona; allowing for the angelic halo and the devilish horns to occasionally show up and blush the environment with its virality.