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kellererd, good stuff. I agree that your solutions are a bit oversimplified, as you observed... but why not have ideals? Ultimately, slowness to change comes down to laziness and inertia against wanting to improve oneself, wanting to take the easy way out for the short-term. I get stuck in it all the time, and it's because I spoil myself too much and get fat 'n lazy on my free time. I really detest it when this happens because I want to constantly become a better person somehow, but can't make it happen. So this can be a stumbling block, too (perfectionism).
Yeah, family background really shouldn't matter if one is truly grown up and responsible for one's attitudes and actions... but I don't think you can snap your fingers and make that happen, either. It does take conscious, hard work to get it out from under one's skin. You have to have a vision of what you want to become, and the WILL to get there... working on it, myself.
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And think not you can direct the course of Love;
for Love, if it finds you worthy, directs your course.
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