@GeorgieDee
Georgie Dee
@GeorgieDee · 3:18

Disney Goggles vs Rounded Experience

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I have a friend who I like to describe as having Disney goggles and a Disney childhood. I know her parents. They are absolutely adorable. They're so nice, positive, nurturing, loving, supportive, balanced. They're amazing. She had an amazing childhood. I can't relate. I had a very dysfunctional, toxic childhood in many ways, and I know many, many other people who had the same childhood
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@aBirdieOnaWire
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@aBirdieOnaWire · 4:32
This would take way too long to describe what she went through but my father sounds like he was cast from the same old as yours. Made it very difficult. And it was as I started getting older that I began to see that well, you know, begin to experience life and the tough crummy aspects of it. And it's taken a number of decades of experience too. Like you said, come out the other end
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@SeekingPlumb

@GeorgieDee

But I think to my original statement that if we can come out of that existence with these skills and wisdom and so on, maybe we can also embrace and remember the wonder, the curiosity of what it was like to be, quote unquote, innocent. Perhaps it's not exactly the innocence of our childhood, but there's maybe a different flavor of innocence, a different flavor of perceiving the world in a different way
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@aayanisms
Aayan B
@aayanisms · 4:32

@GeorgieDee : resilience is a marathon, not a sprint.

There are those designer lives and then there are those who have accidental lives moving from one bad event to the other, from one bad incident to the other, and they barely managed to cope up with it. But the one blessing that they have almost in all cases of people who have had accidental lives air quotes on that is that they have the RQ, the resilience quotient. They just survive, they get on with it, they get on, they move on
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