Val Karas ~ Childhood Influences

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   Brenda Arledgeposted 16 months ago

   Val writes an interesting piece about how our childhood Influences us.
   
   https://hubpages.com/health/Snap-Out-of … Influences

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   Brenda Arledgeposted 16 months ago

   Val...
   I wish it weren't true...but our childhood definitely influences us.
   
   At my age...I'm still trapped with those thoughts...I must stay around to be close to my family...even though sometimes my heart yearns to leave.
   
   But those childhood memories & things we were taught...have a big hold on us.

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   Vladimir - Val Karasposted 16 months ago

   Brenda dear -- There were many memorable and even liberating moments in my childhood, so I just go selective and allow those to influence me. If the crap of those times was allowed to affect me, I would be a messed up old fart by now. But hey, who says that some people anyway don't think that I am exactly that, as they are reading my literary crap. More precisely -- that's what they thought before they stopped reading it altogether. LOL!
   Thank you for reading and promoting my article, sweetie. You are one true good friend!

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   Jodahposted 16 months ago

   We are all affected by our childhoods and upbringing in some way. Some try everything in their power to overcome a bad childhood, so that their children don’t have to suffer the same. Though many others are scarred for life and continue abusive or negative patterns.
   Sometimes the best and most successful people come from the worst upbringings, other times those who were doted on and had seemingly perfect childhoods become terrorists. It is up to us how we use what we learned.
   Thanks for writing this Val, and to you for sharing it, Brenda.

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   Vladimir - Val Karasposted 16 months ago

   John -- Not "ALL" people are affected by their childhood -- just because "SOME" people are. As a matter of fact, there is a whole subculture of awakened people who outgrew their childhood mindset leaving it behind together with their toilet training. Being one of them, I know well what it takes, but also why the multitude of others stay emotionally stuck in their past.
   Such folks identify with their emotions instead of seeing how emotions are but their disposable mental constructs -- so they are scared of the change, because change would involve losing the familiar ground of their comfort zone -- as uncomfortable as it may be.
   So they hypnotically stick to their mental routines instead of snapping out of that crappy trance and starting a fresh chapter in their biography -- if not a whole book, where childhood is only a story to which they are not attached anymore to the effect of emotionally replaying it.
   But yes, you are right when you say that many people "struggle" with those emotions. Pity, because struggle only adds to the adrenaline already involved in their inner turmoil. It's loving oneself which does it. But, LOL, if I keep writing like this, it will be like another paragraph to my article which already said it all.

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