Family interactions are an area which has seen much debate. Some of the most heated ones have been about education. Even though the ingrained responses of culture can be overcome, many people have their own ideas about right and wrong. And they might not wish those they care for to believe or employ all of the ideology prevalent in the culture of their locality and time period. Or rather, they might want others to understand things from a different perspective. After all, free choice means little without more than one option.

     The choices people make will ultimately lead to how successful they become. Most people want those they care for to succeed. The other individuals too, want to succeed. But success is hard to define. Does it mean being a professional in sports? Providing for a family? Having an enjoyable job? Or some combination and more? And how does your version of success compare against those you are working with?

      Individuals vary in the age at which they make realizations about what success means and the paths to achieve it. Often, individuals undergo periods in which they redefine what success means to them. Education seeks to provide enough information to enable wise decisions. But within many cultures information is presented with biases and omissions. This is part of how the beliefs within a culture perpetuate.

      We continue to feel a wide mix of different emotions throughout our lives. Responses are part of what makes us each unique. As people learn to dismiss their feelings and react in specified manners, they are steering towards generic molds. While young, these generic molds help to simplify a complex world. As adults, they provide guidelines which may try to include a sense of how you should feel.

      Though over time and across cultures the molds change, their existence probably never will. Forgetting these molds exist, or ignoring where they lead, could be detrimental to a society. But that depends upon how success is defined.