Wednesday's Words: November 28th, 2007

I’ve heard it said that by the time a child reaches the age of five, their personality and behaviour patterns have been written for life.

I’m not a child psychologist, but I did raise three kids, and I can see how this could be so. That being said, I believe there exists a set of synapses within us that remain blank until much later in life; I can’t tell you when these are finally imprinted, but I suspect it is somewhere around the mid-thirties. This is generally the point in our lives when we’re well established in our homes and our jobs, when we’re faithful voters and tax payers and upstanding members of the community. When we finally come to understand “the way things are supposed to be”.

We don’t realize this ‘imprinting’ has happened until years later, and the only real clue we have that it took place at all is that we have a tendency to begin sentences with the words, “now, in my day...”

 

 

Love,

Morgan