Let's say you have identical twins separated at birth.
One of them lives with an ultra safe and very proper family who demands perfection and their child to be a priest...because of this he then grows up to be a stripper. When I say stripper...I mean one of those nipple tassle, beaded hair glittery type o' strippers.
The other twin grows up in a home where his family were absolute hippies...pot smoking, meth dealing, artsy type o' peeps that believed in orgies, pig parties and swashlers (made up those last two). anyways...this twin then grows up to also be a stripper.
what happened?!?!?
They grew up in different households but ended up having the same dang job! (by the way i'm totally jealous of their ability to wear nipple tassles....don't ask)...anyways...psychology calls this: "COMPENSATION THEORY"
all together now.....YAY!!! a word with more than 3 syllables in it...
PSYCH!SENSE tells us that compensation theory is the meat of the psychological world. Meaning that our parents and upbringing ultimately create the person that we are today. If i'm from ultra super conservative family, I may rebel and say, "screw you! I want to lap dance for a living." on the other side, if i'm from a laid back, chilled out type of family I may grow up saying, "man...I want my life to always be like this...I want to collect dollar bills and make change when I grow up"
PSYCH! kinda finds this sad. Why?!?! because you can then say, I have created a complete understanding of how we are as adults with the compensation theory. You rebel or comply with the family. we are always under control from them!?!?!
So what am I saying?...I'm saying consider one more option. what if you chose your family before you were born? what if your soul/god/spirit/daimon chose who you were to be and the parents you were to have before you were born? What if you purposely chose your life path before the 8 million spermy guys were sent on their race where only 1 would win?
"WAIT?!?!? you're saying that I chose the life I had? crappy or happy? I picked it for myself?"
I am saying...maybe...yes. Your soul/spirit/god/daimon chose your parents and life for you in order for you to find your calling that it was meant to fulfill. Ever hear someone say, "you're an old soul" or perhaps even, "you seem so much older than I thought" or even little children that seem sooooo freakin' brilliant that you have to question, "where the hell did you learn that kid? how did you know that?" perhaps it came from an earlier life...their life before...their spirit remembered that.
In a way, your fmaily didn't have you...You had your family. You chose the circumstances that you were meant to rise up to and meet....take your life experiences are you soul's way of jumping hurdles...of overcoming/meeting what you were always meant to do. hell...you picked it.
or...you can always just become to nipple tassler...geez what is it with me and tassles this morning...
I agree with this and then again I don't. I think as children we always want to rebel against your parents. What if I'm a kid that has parents that are strippers and I don't want to be a stripper, I want to be a chemist or something like that. I think a lot of it has to do with "the grass is greener on the other side" syndrome, or your parents are lame and didn't show you the glamor of the said profession. Has much as I love sex and drinking, I could see myself being a priest if my mom showed me the power of Christ and what a priest means to people that really need someone like that in there life, the impact is HUGE. Its always nice to feel wanted and needed and to feel like a rock star sometimes. So in conclusion, I feel like what you said is true, but how the hell do you pick your family? If human nature ever taught me anything its that humans want to survive. I don't see why anyone would want to be born from a cracked out homeless person, just to die of SIDS or something crazy, it does not make since...
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