Two speakers argue that maturity means not letting childhood wounds define you. One cites Genesis on mastering impulse, the other says people choose whether past circumstances determine their future, not the other way around.
Don't let your baggage weigh you down.
Well, that's what the author said in the book. She says that the definition of maturity is not letting the blows of your childhood affect you too much. One of my favorite lines, I actually think it's the thesis statement of conservatism, and I think it's the thesis statement of the United States of America. It's in Genesis when Cain kills Abel, and God says to him, The impulse towards evil is within you, and yet you have the power to master it. But I think a lot of people consign themselves to, oh well, my mother was this, or my father was that, or I had this happen to me as a kid, so I'm screwed. No, you're not screwed. You're deciding that you're screwed.
That's correct.
We are the stories that we tell ourselves. I so believe this. It's not actually what happened to you. It's the story that you tell yourself about what happened to you that informs the way you are?
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