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Originally Posted by blktour
Was this towards me?
Though I do agree with what I posted above is an everyday learning experience for me.
I have to pick and choose what I believe and what make sense to me. I question myself daily if the way I live is a just way. This is just me trying to be a better person daily.
I feel we should all question everything and pick and choose what we believe from someone. So I will never follow what my family taught me to a T, but will still have the basic concepts of what I was taught.
Angst? hardly. It is just something that is instilled in me from so young that I know where I got it from yet It comes second nature to me and it gets questioned daily.
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No, I wasn't speaking to you directly. Just to the thread in general.
I don't think that making choices and trying to be a good person is indicative of angst. In fact, your words tend to support what I've been saying all along. At some point in our adult lives, we choose who we want to be and we act in ways that support that ideal (barring mental illness). I don't really understand how the lack of having a good male role model (for a man) in one's childhood is anything but angst. By adulthood, people know what is good and upright behavior and they either choose to go that route or they are consumed by narcissism or greed or hate or any other number of negative characteristics and they choose to go another. These are people with good role models in their lives and those without.
I could be missing the mark completely and I accept that. If so, I really would like to know what it is that is missing. How do you who feel like you missed out on early male role models feel you would be different today if you had them? What kind of psychological nuance are we talking about?