Pain perpetuates pain

Pain perpetuates pain

Because we are not strictly our parents, we have a tremendous opportunity. If our parents hurt us or caused us pain in some form, we can choose to stop the cycle. Now, of course, genetic and environmental factors will help us to stop the perpetuation of the chain of pain, but in no small degree, we can say, “I’m not going to do to my child, what my parents did to me.” We can think something along the lines of “What my parents did to me, helped me to learn what and who it was that I was not going to become.” So then, in no small degree, it is our choice to stop the cycle of perpetuation.