LJILJANA w CLIFF #6.1
Today we talked about family. You told me that your mother's name is Zora.And my mother's name is Maureen, though she goes by Dip or Dippy with a lot of her friends. You told me that your father's name was Aogen, he went by the nickname Pino, much like my mother has a nickname that has nothing in common with her actual name. My father does not have a funny nickname. His name is simply Ernest. You told me about your older brother Branco, who is four years older and you were always proud of him, and he was very patient with you. He now has a boy and a girl and they live in Slovenia. I have a younger sister, two years younger. Her name is Etta and she lives about 20 minutes away from me and she has three boys, three very rambunctious boys. Then I asked you about your childhood and you gave it a glowing review. You really liked your childhood. You grew up in the village where you currently live with lots of friends who are the same friends that you have now. You all went to school together. You did homework together. You played together. You told me that you weren't rich, but your parents gave you great lessons on how to be a good person and that carried through your whole life, even today. When you went to secondary school, you found that you had nice colleagues and friends there as well. And there are lots of things that you remember about your childhood that you like to remember about your childhood. There aren't things that you would rather bury and forget.You feel like your childhood gave you a very solid base for a good future. For me,I did not have such a happy story. My childhood was not awful. There was no tragedy involved in my childhood. I was just an unhappy child. My parents were fine, but I was bullied and picked on a lot as a child and it left me lonely and sad and angry. However, I wouldn't change anything about it because all of those things gave me a drive.To ultimately better myself and bring me to the place where I am now, which I very much like so I wouldn't want to change anything about the things that got me here. Even if I didn't like it back then, it was an investment in a great adulthood and future. That brought us to the topic of aging a little bit, and the consequences of pushing ourselves like we're 20 or 30 because we're not 20 or 30, we're much closer to 50 and that doesn't make us old, but it doesn't make us quite as resilient as we used to be.