Originally Posted by AddictGuy

...It's all true about the wacked out childhood. We grow up with madness and then we are expected to go have a good life and to "go get 'em" once we are adults. Right. It seems to be so much about our orientations and we get "oriented" in childhood, even if our orientations are basically self-invalidating insanity.
Who knows if there is even anything "back there" to discover. I say just invent yourself. And, like you were referring to -- the importance of having some goals and some rules. This is who I want to be. This is who I do not want to be. This is what I will do. This is what I will not do. These are the daily steps I will take to try to make that happen. This is my little list. These are my priorities.