ARE YOU A SHEEP OR SHEPHERD?

Why do some people follow the actions of others? This we will never be able to clearly define.   Wouldn't you agree, some people tend to closely mimic the behaviors of others either because they think it is cool or is the right thing to do. When really it reveals a weaker side of individuals who neglect to make choices for themselves.  Usually the result of following others....leads to one dumb choice after another. What a waste?
   I am not solely speaking on the grade aged individuals because adults are just as bad.  We often dislike others because someone in our circle dislike someone else...Don't look like that, we all have done it.  But try this now.  Ask yourself...is hating someone else on the behalf of someone else beneficial to the life you want and need lead?  Is disliking someone else for someone else reflecting in your purpose for being on this Earth. ....or are you here to "LOVE everyone?"  There are so many things people do based on the actions of others...things we wear, dialect, drugs, alcohol, etc. ...some things we would have never attempted had we not been influenced....in such a way we neglect our ability to maintain self-control and control our own minds.
 We have to get in the "know"...I mean the "know how to think for ourselves."   
    We have to decide whether we are going to be a "sheep" or a "shepherd."  WHICH ARE YOU?