These days many people say, 'We lead the life according to our wish. We don't work under the influence of others.'
Really speaking everyone gets influenced by some doctrine. People with above stated doctrine are too influenced by those who preach this thought.
From childhood, everyone gets influenced by others. In fact, child learns through influence of surrounding people - parents, relations, friends, something that it watches on TV etc. People get influenced by celebrities, sport persons, politicians and so on.
We follow those persons who influence us. Thus persons who get influenced by saints, follow saints. Those who get influenced by materialistic persons follow material path.
The ones who get influenced by correct philosophies, head to the divine world of God and those who don't end their life without getting any in sights of divine world, just to take birth and die again.