An interesting concept, isn’t it? Or is it a treadmill that I have unknowingly built for myself? The trap of a ‘settle for’ life that requires no introspection? Perhaps a life that has little memory of the spontaneous child – so full of possibilities – before the adults in our families fed him to a society that welcomed and fashioned him for its own purposes.
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‘If you didn’t know your parents, then it is important that you invent them.’
Those are not the exact words spoken by that wise person, but the spirit is there. For us who did not grow up having parents, we can still place them into our memories.
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In my previous post I spoke of putting folks, as our heroes or role models, on a pedestal when they had not wanted that in their life. If that has happened to you, how did you respond? Someone is living their life as it has presently turned out for them and parts of that life got targeted. The result is that the whole person is singled out as a role model and is expected to now follow our standards and not his or her own. Very common scenario, right?
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We had this chat in an earlier posting and I am reminded of it from today’s news. The Olympics are over and those who are or were our abbreviated heroes have faded into the background. Some of us are still experiencing a mix of highs and lows, where the medals they won were also considered our medals…for some reason. Perhaps the events are fading from memory because there were also losers and to mention the winners means we mention the losers and then we feel we need to provide a well-intentioned explanation as to why we don’t have their medals to display.
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