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Old Apr 20, 2010, 12:19 PM
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Originally Posted by Perna View Post
You have to eat a lot of cooked carrots when you're a kid before you decide they're not too bad :-)
Or not.

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I do have a good "base" so my self esteem is not that hard to access. So, I didn't berate myself for realizing that I had been wrong all that time, that the sky was not falling and thus my reactions to what experiences came my way were "wrong".
I cannot say I had that good a base -- I think it was marginal, so I was more destabiliized by what other people said than you seem to have been.

All in all, I see a lot of wisdom in your post, Perna.
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