Reply #23: I think the generational aspect is underrated; glad you brought it up.

[susanna]

It's perpetual; what our parents tell us when we're young, we disbelieve "I'll figure it out for myself!" What we tell our children when they're young, they disbelieve: "You don't know everything!". It seems that we set the cycles up over and over and over again, until as we mature, many lessons do sink in; but often too late. It seems we have to live the experience to truly understand it. And if what I just wrote is true, it will continue ad infinitum. How to break the cycle then becomes the real puzzle, I guess. :shrug: