When Your Spirit-Driven Development is Threatened and
Delayed
When your spirit-driven development to adulthood is
threatened, it’s life-affirming work is denied. Your spirit’s immediate emotional response to the
denial is anger, fear, sadness, guilt, and disappointment.
Your spirit’s emotional response is its attempt to overcome
the threat to you becoming an adult. The more intense the threat, the more
intense your spirit’s emotional response.
When the threat to your development overwhelms your ability
to overcome it, it delays your development to becoming an adult. Your spirit’s
response to your delayed development is a chronic
emotional response of anger, fear, sadness, guilt, and disappointment.
Despite your delay to becoming self-sustaining, you reach society’s
“age of adulthood.” Society (embodied by your parents, teachers, media,
governing officials, employers, etc.) expects you to be self-sustaining when
your body is fully developed, around 18 to 24 years old. You also expect to be
an adult and treated as such around this time.
It’s Not Your Fault
It’s not your fault that your development to sustaining your
life is delayed. The threats to your development were more than you could
handle at the time.
There is nothing wrong with you morally or as a human being.
However, your delayed development is a problem for your society’s expectations of
you. It also a problem for your own expectations of yourself and your life.
You’re not in synch with society’s expectations or your own. Being out of synch
can be a miserable place to be.
When your development is delayed, you can sustain your life
by using immature ways or by intentionally developing mature ways yourself.
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