Have you ever wondered why you feel the way you do? Have you questioned an idea you always thought was true? Was your answer, "Well, that's the way it's always been ..." or "That's just the way it is."
Are you sure?
We collect information our whole lives about ourselves, us people (the people we know), those people (the people we don't know), and the world, in general. Some of those ideas were just someone else's opinion and we adopted it as our own, but it was still just an opinion. Some of our best ideas, we dreamed up, all by ourselves ... when we were 8 or 9 or 10 years old!
It's funny when you think of it. Would any of us do anything a 8, 9 or 10 year old told us to do?
Of course not!
And yet, we "grown ups" operate everyday on the silly ideas we gathered when we were 8, 9 and 10 years old!!! Those old beliefs and ideas influence the way we act, the way we talk and the way we think ...
Are you sure?
We collect information our whole lives about ourselves, us people (the people we know), those people (the people we don't know), and the world, in general. Some of those ideas were just someone else's opinion and we adopted it as our own, but it was still just an opinion. Some of our best ideas, we dreamed up, all by ourselves ... when we were 8 or 9 or 10 years old!
It's funny when you think of it. Would any of us do anything a 8, 9 or 10 year old told us to do?
Of course not!
And yet, we "grown ups" operate everyday on the silly ideas we gathered when we were 8, 9 and 10 years old!!! Those old beliefs and ideas influence the way we act, the way we talk and the way we think ...
But what if we got it wrong?
I wonder how many times I let that little child tell me what to do? If I could do it, maybe other people do it too?
It certainly explains a lot.
I wonder how many times I let that little child tell me what to do? If I could do it, maybe other people do it too?
It certainly explains a lot.
1 comment:
They say that we adopted what others told us about ourselves when we were a child and we carry that with us throughout the rest of our lifes. If we could but erase and form the selfs we were truly meant to be, well, that would be enlightening, don't you think? Hmm? Love, Barb
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