TOEFL® essay: Different people influence our lives in different ways.

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Task: Different people influence our lives in different ways. How? Illustrate your answer with specific examples.

There are some people who go into our lives and stay for a long time such as our parents, but there are also many of others who presently pass by and even leave for evermore like pedestrians. Those people, imperceptibly, affect more or less our lives by this way or that way. And this essay will focus on the good ways different people influence our lives.
People whose the most and longest impact on our lives, that we cannot help mentioning first, are our parents. It is absolutely true because they are the ones who give birth and nurture us since we were born till we reach adulthood. They teach us things directly or indirectly that makes us become a better person. They are also examples that we take as our model. As we live with them, everything they do every day will partly set something in each of us. For example, when we go shopping with our mothers, an old woman standing in the pavement and cannot cross the street. Then, our mothers come to her and help. From that, we can learn that helping old people crossing the street is a good thing and we should always do like that.
In addition, there are also many other people fleeting our lives but somewhat exert an influence on us. As for me, I still remember when I was ten, I had to walk to school alone. My school at that time was about 1 km away from home and there was a very beautiful stream on the way. There was nothing happened till one rainy day, when I was trying to jump over to the other side of that stream, I suddenly slipped and fell into the current. The situation was going bad, then luckily there was a man passing by and saw me go up and down. He unhesitatingly jumped into the stream and rescued me. Afterward, he went away and I would never know who he is to thank him again.
In conclusion, to everyone around us, even they are with us for a long time or just a short time, we also should care about them and learn good things from them. This does not only make us better but also be able to consolidate our relationships with others.