Conversation – 18

Sheba, this is so pretty. Wonder if they are easy to grow?

@shoelady60,

I could eat fish every single day if I never ate meat again it would be too soon. ✨✨

Oz is cold tonight with rain. Hubby brought home some good Fish Dinners. 😘😎

Enjoy. ✨✨

@oodiebom,

Ditto take care see you in Trivia. ✨✨

@sheba2011

Good evening from the ‘burgh. Sunny but cold and windy here also, about 30 degrees colder than yesterday.🥶

Stayed in most of the day since I was tired. We went with mom and sis to the first fish fry at one of the churches for dinner.🐟🦐 It was very good and I’m stuffed like a turkey.

Not much planned for the weekend. I had a busy week so may just do small things around the house. Hope you can finally shake the cold.🤧 Hugs to you and Poppy.🤗💖

@sheba2011

Just returned from the market and put together a care package for hubby. I do not think I will be back in time to start the game, but will try to be there at some point.

Becoming Your Parents

We may honor some traits from our parents, while rejecting others and becoming our own person.

Heredity plays a role in almost all human development, whether physical, mental, or emotional. We tend to look like our parents and are subject to the same sensitivities they have. We may even be predisposed to certain behaviors or preferences. As we grow older, we become increasingly aware of the traits that exist within us and the clear history of the traits of our mothers and fathers. Our response to this epiphany depends upon whether the inclinations, tendencies, and penchants we inherited from our forebears are acceptable in our eyes. We may honor some of these shared traits while rejecting others. However, there is no law of nature, no ethereal connection between parents and children, that states that the latter must follow in the footsteps of the former. We are each of us free to become whoever we wish to be.

When we accept that our parents are human beings in possession of both human graces and human failings, we begin to regard them as distinct individuals. And by granting mothers and fathers personhood in our minds, we come to realize that we, too, are autonomous people and in no way destined to become our relations. While we may have involuntarily integrated some of our parents’ mannerisms or habits into our own lives, conscious self-examination will provide us with a means to identify these and work past them if we so desire. We can then unreservedly honor and emulate those aspects of our mothers and fathers that we admire without becoming carbon copies of them.

Though many of the tempers and temperaments that define you are inherited, you control how they manifest in your life. The patterns you have witnessed unfolding in the lives of your parents need not be a part of your unique destiny. You can learn from the decisions they made and choose not to indulge in the same vices. Their habits need not become yours. But even as you forge your own path, consider that your parents’ influence will continue to shape your life—whether or not you follow in their footsteps. Throughout your entire existence, they have endeavored to provide you with the benefit of their experiences. How you make use of this profound gift is up to you. Amen! ✨✨🌹

@kittengirl,

Wishing you a good and safe weekend. Kitten be safe. 🌹✨

@shoelady60,

Good day in the ‘burgh. I did see your post from last evening. ✨✨

Oz is very cold today and I am taking it easy cold is almost over.

Wishing you a great evening.

Sending a safe hug to you and Jake’s Canvas. 😘😘

@taci,

Good afternoon in S. California please let me know how you are doing today with
the weather.

Be careful✨✨

@oodiebom

I hope your day is going well pretty sure you are busy. I am feeling alright still have
that nagging cold that is taking it’s time to go away.

How are you and hubby doing today? If you are up to it see you in Trivia.

@xango,

Good afternoon in Florida I hope you and hubby road trip is going well and you
both are having fun. ✨✨

Drive safe and check in when you feel like it.

@loaf,

Wishing you a great Friday and enjoy the weekend. Miss ya. ✨🌹

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