Reply To: how to become more religious?

There are several components to observance. The first is the knowledge that one has certain religious obligations the second is, how committed you are to fulfilling those obligations. There is another component called growth, which is the recognition that there is more to observance than (I am using these examples because they have come up) just Shabbos and Kashrus, and learning about it and committing to its observance as well. Ones environment certainly plays a role in ones growth, or its opposite. I doubt most people simply remain “as is”. I have no idea how old you are, where you live or what type of people you spend your time with, but at some point in your life people simply wont care where you went to high school.