I had a little help growing up realizing I wanted to have my own children. Adults always bored me incredibly and so I wanted to have children so I could be closer to God. Adults were so psychologically messed up in the 1950s I didn't want to ever be like that. So, I felt that I could stay more childlike if I had children and not become CRAZY like most adults were in the 1950s.
However, at age 21 when I first studied seriously psychology, Philosophy and Cultural anthropology I realized that everyone I knew as an adult in the 1950s including my parents had PTSD from the Great Depression and World war II. They were all survivors of horrific things since around 1930 until 1945 and then they had to deal with the Hydrogen bomb and then Dr. STrangelove(1964) which was the first time people actually were able to laugh at nuclear holocaust. This helped everyone cope a lot better after this movie came out instead of just being completely paranoid all the time.
So, I was dealing with all this Postwar and post Great Depression BS as I was growing up.
So, how I survived past age 25 was basically by learning to understand my own strengths and weaknesses and motivations and designing a new self that could actually survive past 25 without self destructing like so many of my peers did through the Viet Nam War, and everything else that happened in the 1960s and 1970s here in the U.S.
So,"know thyself" saved my life from age 21 to 25 and then I got married and had a son and I just kept understanding myself better and better through the process of experience and enlightenment along the way.
So, now I'm all the way to 77 learning about myself and everyone else in the universe in what I consider to be a very useful way for everyone to survive this century and centuries to come here on earth.
By God's Grace
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