Cycle

I think everything is circular. Straight lines eventually cross. Waves come in and they go back out. All patterns and cycles. The seasons, earth rotation, night and day, the moon and the sun. I guess that is why, when things feel heavy, I just wait for them to return to normal. I just accept that is the way it is suppose to be. Accepting sadness and expecting things to go awry, I have heard is a trauma response. Knowing there is a silver lining eventually is hope. Is that experience or already in there?

Trauma can be linked to life threatening or in some cases distressing events. It can be based on perception. Something traumatic to one is not necessarily traumatic to another. The hardest part is not judging other people’s trauma. People that suffer some serious things in their lifetime question the credibility of another persons trauma. There are plenty of people that don’t even recognize the impact of trauma on themselves. Growing up, trauma was a wound and psychology and mental health got people into trouble. Family business, was nobody’s business and parents ruled with promises of reform school or being tossed out to the street.

Great stuff happened at the end of the eighties. Gen X grew up and created a generation that we hoped would never have exposure to any of the stuff we did. That is the hope of every generation.Family units shrunk, we gave them whatever we could including our whole hearts. Did you know trauma can be passed along? Not saying the generation before or after didn’t love their children, just saying there was a shift. How is that generation that now sits somewhere in their thirties? How are they doing raising the next generation? Did we do any better? Every generation has something to say about the generation before. That too is a cycle and that cycle comes full circle when understanding is achieved.