I realize that it's been a few weeks since I've done this. I've been rather busy and will post more as to why later tonight...hopefully.
This week's secret really struck home. As I've gotten older I've noticed that my generation differs greatly from the previous one of our parents, in that it's social acceptable to discuss your traumatic childhoods. While the past 20+ years, things were to be kept hush-hush, persons this day and age are comfortable chatting about dysfunction over a casual cup of coffee. While I believe that everything that you've gone through has made you the person you are today, and that if you're ok with who you are, you have to accept EVERY part of it, not just the good things....it's nice being able to see that almost every family is just as fuckered up as mine. :)
~K
"They fuck you up, your mum and dad.
They may not mean to, but they do.
They fill you with the faults they had
And add some extra, just for you.
But they were fucked up in their turn
By fools in old-style hats and coats,
Who half the time were soppy-stern
And half at one another's throats.
Man hands on misery to man.
It deepens like a coastal shelf.
Get out as early as you can,
And don't have any kids yourself."
This be the Verse-Phillip Larkin
(I love this poem, though I don't agree with the last line.)
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