Focus Forward – Personal Growth

By: Knatchwa

Jul 24 2009

Tags: Change, Experience, Life Without Change, Norman Bates, Psycho Analysis, Self Help, Self Improvement

Category: Examples, Steps to Make it Happen.

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I am Norman Bates … Do You Choose To Become?

As I was talking with my good friend, who is currently working in Alaska, he made an interesting point, and recalling Norman  Bates, the character from Psycho (1960) about how if a person decides to only exist, to just spend their years in a home, living with parents, could it possibly result the same? In the sense that if you never get out of your home and do something different, if you just exist and subsist as you always have, what happens then? If you never take a step outside of what you know then you may as well be like Norman Bates, in becoming your mother, because without further awareness, in living in a closed house rarely stepping outside how to examine life, make your own decisions and choose where you want to take your future?

Norman Bates, as the example being offered here, was certainly Psychologically Damaged, he did not truly exist except for the character but the idea of never getting out, never getting away is like his dependence on a mother who tries to be the only one in his life, to control his thoughts and to make all other things seem as if they are evil. That she is the only one who is good, of all the world. The point being if you never look outside of what you know, then you will never go much further then your mother’s breast, in the sense that you will never find yourself as instead you only become what she decides for you. In which it becomes her life instead of your own though the character takes it to an extreme to become his mother, but really as you consider it if you never get away from your own family, then there is a higher likelihood you will become just like them instead of the person you could become if you step away and start to think for yourself.

Once you have made that quality decision, reached that consensus with the person in the mirror, then it is a matter of action, steps to make change, to understand that it is truly your life and you can do what you want to do with it, and if you do something different you can also start new trends, new ideas that are shared with your children and their children as any change requires concerted effort. Particularly with things that are well engrained, traditions that have lasted for years even if by today’s standards very much outdated, relics of a bygone era, where society was different and views were also. Change is not an easy thing but it is a very important thing, to start the process of making the change for a better tomorrow by taking the steps today.

In closing the idea presented here was one which you may agree with or not, however they are also solid truths and ideas and steps to take to make the necessary change in your life today, to extend life and to help the environment so that your children and their children are living in a better world, where more solid ideas are offered, having an open mind, doing your part to help the environment and to help others. To assist in bringing people to a new level of remembering that it is better to think for yourself then to have others think for you. To help others understand that that there is a full spectrum of color in all it’s brilliance that is being missed out on if they only look at the Black and the White of the whole process. Never seeing what is between such extremes. Whether it is simply because they choose selective ignorance or they are letting others make the choice for them, content to just go along instead of make their own choices and resolve the challenges of life not quite fully lived.