Why me?

We are all socialised by our senses(what we see, what we hear,what we smell, what we touch and what touches us and what we eat). This is what creates who we are. And thus we are all products of our environments...

I am a product of my environment. And this has made me who and what I am.
Born in Sea Point in Cape Town, most of my primary school years were during the apartheid era.
My last year of primary school, apartheid was abolished and there was change in the air, instead of just having white friends, I now also had black and couloured friends.
Going into Sea Point high school, most of my friends went to the more "upmarket" Camps Bay High school and some to private schools...
By the time I finished matric at Sea Point High the school was 90% black.
My mother was an extremely empathetic person, and thus i naturally followed suit and I embraced my fellow African brothers and sisters, while others ran away and tried to avoid the reality that things had changed...because most people are afraid of change, they like being in a comfort zone; whereas I embrace change. I was in a cultural melting pot-Xhosa, Zulu, Hindu, Muslim and Cape Coloured and I embraced all these new cultures.
So my schooling experience, as well as the image of Mandela's release in 1990 and then the changing of the govt, set the background for my interest in societal, environmental and even global change.