"People generally say what they have been taught to say." - 

The English Admiral.

  I think no truer words have ever been spoken. Unique thoughts from our own inspiration are few, and especially when we are young men and women; we adopt and mimic our friends, mates, authors we read, movies we see and professors we listen too. The greatest sadness and folly is, we have no concept of how many more influences will come to us as each decade passes. The myriad of voices we will hear, the enlightening experiences, as well as great sorrows we will have, each one leaving a mark so that as we stand at midlife there are few traces of who we were when young.