++ [ originally posted by Tifoso Lou
] ++
If you are conflicted--then you want to change. It isn't too late.
Look, lets put it this way: my genes predispose me to being, say, hypertensive. It is "what I am". But we are built to be more than "what we are". I can choose to be more than my genes--it is what really makes me human. To be held to a higher standard, if you will. To change my life-style to avoid/control my hypertension.
I may tend toward overdrinking (say)--I must rise above it and refuse/push the extra glass away.
I am not an animal-- neither, obviously, are you. Rise above it. Rise to your highest calling--not your lowest. You can do it.