When you are gifted or have special abilities

The problem when you are growing up is that you are going to be different in some way. And if kids can single out that difference they might make your life difficult. It could be a mental or physical ability or it could be an intuitive ability or it could be a combination of things.

In my own life I had trouble with self acceptance (of being very tall and handsome after age 15) of (often knowing things before they happened). And then I learned when I should and should not talk about what I saw coming. This was very hard to learn.

Then it was hard to have these abilities be both helpful to myself and all other beings. I realized that being given whatever gifts I had been given was a gift from God and so I learned that I had to "Honor God" with all the gifts he had bestowed on me or I would die soon. So, this made me nervous because I didn't want to misuse the gifts God had given me. So, at times there was a lot of fear especially when my gifts were extremely powerful on some times and days and I knew it. I was watching Sunday's episode of "Once upon a Time" and they were speaking about how "Self Acceptance" is the only way to stop strange things from happening in your life. This is actually true. If you get so worried about everything you can just "short out" like the sticking a bobby pin into an apple that you put into a plug socket and create a short with that might blind you. (I did this with our thermador electric heater in our bathroom when I was a boy and the elements(the electric coils) exploded and burned me some. Luckily, it didn't set the bathroom on fire because I stamped it out with my shoes when it set the bathroom carpets on fire.

So, self acceptance is important with any gifts you have that are intuitive, mental or physical or a combination of all these at once. Another gift in my family is extreme co-ordination physically which is one reason we are able to physically do almost anything and survive it somehow.

So, self acceptance of your abilities might save your life. Otherwise you might freak out and accidentally cause your own death or the deaths of others.

Praying can help with this sort of thing a lot too, so you are getting in sync with God and his plans for you here on earth and beyond.

In fact, one of the most important things I found I could do for everyone around me was not to get too excited and always to be able to be very centered and calm. This I found saved lives often even my own as I grew up through my 20s and 30s and became a father and husband and business owner and beyond.

I'm not the fan of "Once upon a Time" that my wife and daughter are. But, since my youngest daughter is away at college my wife often wants me to watch it with her so I do so she doesn't have to watch a series she used to watch with her daughter all alone.

The problem with the Empty nest syndrome is it tends to get worse as time goes on. However, I already went through it once starting about 1990 with my oldest stepson leaving home and then the next year his younger sister went away too. So, having been through this whole thing once I sort of get what comes next with Empty nest Syndrome. So, when I remarried in 1995 and had another daughter the next year I had 18 years until this happened to me and my new wife again.

Note: If you are interested in watching the episode that got me to write this blog article it was "Once Upon a Time" the two hour episode called "Smash the Mirror" which I believe is the end of the season for now for this series.