{"id":1401,"date":"2017-05-14T15:41:14","date_gmt":"2017-05-14T20:41:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.gilcanrun.com\/?p=1401"},"modified":"2017-05-14T15:41:14","modified_gmt":"2017-05-14T20:41:14","slug":"happy-mothers-day-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.gilcanrun.com\/?p=1401","title":{"rendered":"Happy Mother’s Day"},"content":{"rendered":"

Got up early for a Sunday, got lots of stuff done, went for a run<\/a>, although I cut it short. Originally, I wanted to run a half, but the Sun was super harsh, and with such a short turn-around from yesterday’s run it was too much. But I am right on target for the month, I got to the beach, I swam, I washed my clothes, changed my sheets, made a fantastic lunch, with a lovely fruit salad, all this before the majority of the East Coast of the US was even awake. Why? So I could be ready for when my family got to my mom’s house so I could call and wish a Happy Mother’s Day, because my mom broke her cellphone, and won’t have a replacement until Tuesday. So until my sister got there, I had no way of talking to her.
\nI kept reminding my family that instead of looking forward to my return to the United States (I have to because I have to renew my license and take care of some paperwork, even though I don’t want to right now), they should be planning to come visit me. It is demonstrably nicer here. Yes, there are a few things which are annoying. But generally speaking, it’s much better. Case in point, everyone complained to me how cold it is in Southern New England today, whereas I had to cut my run short due to the heat, and then went to the beach and swam for the rest of my morning! Although I have water in my ear, been trying to get rid of it all day to no avail.
\nBut Mother’s Day got me thinking about how we raise children. I was talking to someone about how I had to wait, and give my sister time to get settled and into my mom’s house before I called, because of the fact my nephew is 2 and younger niece is 4. While I was waiting, I thought about that. It doesn’t make sense, “the Terrible Twos”, as we call it. Children throwing fits because things aren’t the way they want it. Evolution-wise, this makes no sense. You’re roaming the plains and the child, too large to carry, yet still having difficulty walking throws itself down on the ground screaming, for every predator in the area to hear? Would never be allowed. This “condition” is clearly an example of where humanity gets it wrong. I can only guess that as the mind is developing, being that we are not following a natural development for our offspring, that “the Terrible Twos” are a product of the developing child attempting to reject the unnatural methods enforced by society as it currently exists. Maybe I’m missing something, but from what I’ve observed, it just doesn’t seem to fit. Yes, developing life forms will test their limits, but to the point of being a detriment to all, I just don’t imagine that.
\nI’ve spoken before about how I feel we are generations deep in conditioning, further back than most people that believe in it even think. More than that, I think things like “the Terrible Twos” are a symptom of that. I think we need to start listening to that stuff, if we want to fix the problems we cause ourselves. I’m pretty sure the vast majority of human behavior, at this point, is learned behavior. Even the stuff we consider completely natural. Anyway, I will not harp on this point tonight. I’ll just say that I think you should question your motives for everything you ever do.
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