Question Everything

It has come to my attention that environment can make a person to be submissive even to the harshest and cruelest treatment. I, too, have had that kind of experience in my life. First it was at school, then it was at workplace, and then it was people around me that influenced my pattern of thought to become submissive to rules and expectation. I think that submissive behavior caused by such conditioning is dangerous to one's mental development.
Even if you are an adult, you can still have the mind of a child if you don't learn to think for yourself and stop others from influencing your thought. I think that it's also dangerous to depend on others to make decision for you or let others tell you how things are. You must constantly question every single information that people give you because most of the time, it's going to be either biased or inaccurate. Only a few information is worth believing because only few things can truly be proven with enough evidence. Opinions, on the other hand, are subjective and are incomplete which is why they are called opinions, not facts. But facts are not always "facts" either, or should I say that what we believe to be facts are not always the truth.
The point is that as you live your life, you will inevitably let your environment (other people) define who you are and how you think. It is just inevitable for most of us are emotional, irrational, and illogical although we want to believe that we are better than that. The only thing we can do is constantly challenge unproven ideas (even yours) and question everything even if it seems "proven." If there is a hole or a flaw in an idea, then dig that hole and get to the bottom of it. Never follow a pattern and never believe anything. In today's society, we can be slaves only if we let others think for us.
Think for yourself.
Don't believe anything.
That's what I believe to be the way to live a free life.