I’m a very curious soul. I feel like I’ve been around a long time and I want to know it all. Everything. People have called me various things for this reason – voyeur, nosy, inquisitive, obsessive. The whole gamut.
One thing I’ve been thinking about recently is how we have come to be who we are.
What has influenced us?
Who has had an impact on us?
How much do we really choose?
Which experiences have been most significant?
I believe that even before we born, we’re being shaped. Shaped on the experiences of our parents, what anxieties and hardships have they been through? Where are they from??
My father’s side of the family are completely English, going back hundreds of years, my mother’s side not English at all – Irish, bit of French, bit of German. It’s all got to have an effect, surely?
For whatever reason, it fascinates me and, perhaps, it can be the key to letting go of trauma and freeing yourself from influences and thoughts that are not even your own.