© Alex Harter

11 /13 /98

Age 18

Choose Your Enemies Well…

My Age

0-10 yrs.    1.  Self:

            Love, hope, self-assertion, self-motivation, truth, happy to not be center of attention, learning the beauty of everything, loving neighbors as self, …    = supremely happy, excited, discovering, unabused, unassuming…

5 1 /2 - 13 yrs.2.a Parents:

15-            give Fear, rain Hate, put down, ignore, redirect, manipulate, control, create reliance, indoctrination, better is power, work is happiness, fear others, fear teachers, fear loss, etc.    +competition, win, do it this way, ask me, I’m busy…

8-13 yrs.    2.b. Hating them as response, frustration, ignoring, fighting, hurting, try to use 16-17 yrs.        their methods on them, desperation; desire for freedom, not love;

18-            independence, not respect; losing sight of Love, going for coexistence; gradually, they mellow, but not much, …    +don’t bother me, stay away, not listening…

13-14        3.  Gradual acceptance /apologizing

15-            Natural homeostasis, talk about humans in general, Pitying one another sometimes, helping the other, subdued, accepting subordinance, telling rights, not only responsibilities, giving comfort, respecting, supporting, listening, sharing, almost communicating

{PICTURE: Timeline made of solid lines and endpoints or “continuing “ arrows, with some breaks, summarizing the above, in vertical order: + Love, - Fear, - Hate, + Nature /Pity, and horizontally my age up to 30.}