Thanks for your post! I totally agree with you.

Over the years, social structures gradually turn us into limited beings, who seem to lose control over their own lives. The main problem is that we want to believe that this is not the case, we deny it, and we assure that we live freely, that we choose in each step the direction we really want in our lives.

I want to add that it is in some kind our own will to let other control because that causes security for our life. Everything has to become safe! And we fear to loose the love of ours, so we don't show our real feelings. That is the old way we all have learned. With my children i tried another way. I don't believe that we need a middle course. If everyone lives his "true" life, everything will arrange itself.
We have to regain our selfrespect and take responsibility for our own life That is a way to teach the children a better way of living...

Birthday: When i was a child i hated to unpack my presents because i fear that i don't like it and then did not know what to say... What a mess about making gifts!!!! Let us be just as we are - we think too much - hihi that is funny because of your "train of the thoughts" ;-)