In thinking about what to write, I thought about the book I’m currently reading, and maybe to give a deeper POV instead of my normal short and superficial reviews.
I’m currently half way through this book, and it’s getting better as the story comes along. A key point of the book is about fortune telling, and the identity formed when someone says something over you. This is not the main story line, but a key plot device. The characters have interacted in some ways with a fortune teller who used to live in their town. And the fortunes told had impacted the young children who later became adults.
I’m not one for fortune telling, but I do think that what we learn when we are young does set an identity that we take one. Sometimes this push us to do good and better in life. Other times, we’re not really encouraged, and instead we have a bad label placed on us. It’s harder to work through because we are young, and easily influenced.
It means how I decide to take care of my own kid also matters greatly. How do I reinforce good in her life, for her to choose good next time, and to do good to others too? Maybe just giving her a good label will shape her identity in more ways than I’d imagine.
At the same time, I have to be very careful about the bad labels. Things said in anger or frustration might be incredibly damning and painful, causing a lot more hurt and pain than help. These are careful boundaries to be aware of and to avoid.
Another 100 more pages on the book, but that probably means I’ll be done with it by tomorrow. So many books late on the reading schedule.
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