It Depends

My neighborhood is quite peculiar.  The street I live on is quiet.  It is so quiet that I get scared because of its quietness.  On the other hand, the street behind my house is active.  The street I live on is not very active.  We don't have any get-together events or anything like that.  All we do is say "Hi" to each other.  We know each others names and just a little about each other.  Each house, more or less, keeps to themselves, and I attended schools that were not around the neighborhood.  Both of these factors has shaped me to who I am and led to me being quite solitary.  It was difficult for me to connect with people at my schools because I did not live nearby.  I did not connect with any kids around the neighborhood because I did not attend any schools near my house.  I disliked having this disconnection with society.  It's probably the reason why I cannot socialize as well as others.

People naturally have the need to socialize with others.  I didn't converse with others as much as other people because most of the time I stayed in the house.  This led to the proliferation of online gaming and interest in technology.  Growing up, I spent hours on my computer playing MMO's (Massively Multi-player Online).  I only had one real-life friend to play with most of the time, and other times, I played by myself with random people.  Those random people became good acquaintances in the games I played.  Since I was on the computer most of the time, I developed skills as I went on.  From installing/uninstalling programs, learning computer terms, typing fast, to learning internet terms, and etc., I gained a good amount of interest in technology.

In the end, my surroundings influenced me to who I am.   If I never lived in such a quiet neighborhood, I would never have been as solitary.  I may have been a completely different person if I did attend a school nearby.  The possibilities are endless.