Saturday 3 November 2012

The statute of limitations has expired on most of our childhood trauma

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We go about our daily lives yet majority of individuals carry things from their childhood that limit them in adulthood to achieve some of their dreams or even worse, none.

Take for instance the brilliant, intelligent kid whose parents put under constant pressure to be the top achiever and get straight A’s, if they got a B they’d be automatically placed in the ‘dumb people’ category. So what happens in their adulthood: they have to keep achieving, their career becomes their very existence, the end result: limitation of an romantic partnership, lose of time for loved one or just die wealthy, miserable and lonely. Moving on to the girl who was teased as a kid of her obesity, she grows up and realizes the world has an obsession with being waif and skinny so she eats an apple a day so society can finally except her but her insecurities are deeply rooted in the tears of the obese little girl so she starves herself to death. People remember her for a few weeks, and then society forgets her eternally.

There are a million and one story lines that I can feature here, what it all comes down to is how it is that we deal with our childhood trauma as we all have a story to tell and it’s a never ending one...

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