Is childhood Burden or an Asset?
It has often felt that childhood years have been the best period of life. There are so many writings and literature on romanticizing the childhood period. But when I reflect on my childhood days they were full of burdens comparisons and compulsions. There was pressure to perform, pressure to be the best, and pressure to compete with my siblings. So in hindsight if think childhood has not been the best period of life. Only after growing up into adulthood, I have been able to discover my dreams, and my fantasies, and move toward who I am as a human being. So far adulthood has been much better than childhood. That childhood does not to your intelligence growth per wellbeing only. Once you grow up you feel that you can respond like an adult and make choices like an adult. Everything right for somebody else may not be right for you . Our minds start functioning like machines when we are children and we do not apply the adult framework to ourselves. Author:-Dr. Naya...