There is a very famous old saying that goes ‘give me a child until he is seven and I will give you the man’. What the author is trying to emphasize is that things that happened to us when we were young can shape us into the people we are as adults.

We all have things in our past that damaged us. One very common example is that of a girl whose parents told her that they had wanted a boy (or vice-versa). This sort of thing can be very damaging to children and they can grow into to adults that feel unloved, insecure, have low self esteem…..the list goes on. The problem is that such damaging words and actions cause us as adults to believe and base our feelings, reactions, and even lives on lies; the past can still have a very firm hold on us.