Susan Erickson Catucci's Blog: Who Do I Think I Am?
August 10, 2022
Adversity Builds Character
Some phrases you tend to hear consistently throughout your childhood can and will stick with you for life. For me, and I believe my three siblings as well, our Dad would toss out those three words often with conviction and a wink.
Of course, in my early youth, I had no idea what adversity was, or character, outside of my favorites (Beanie and Cecil) from the cartoons I watched, but I noted the way my father would trumpet those three words as if they could neatly pack up and put to bed any unpleasantness in life. So I paid attention.
Then, as I got a little older, I began to realize that it meant something along the lines of tough times can make you a better person, whatever doesn't kill me type of thing. Well, by that time I was a wild child of the 60's and determined to get my own character in my own way, thinking I could side-step the worn-out ways of the establishment. After all, I was artsy, a ridiculously rebellious teen (third child) and completely indestructible.
Now, it's fifty years later and those words fit comfortably, like an old pair of shoes. Ultimately, just being mindful and trying to glean the most out of all forms of life experience, good, bad, indifferent, has served, has helped build me.
This pandemic, that we are yet still in the midst of, has turned out, for me, to be a true beginning, a new life. It has gifted me with two major advantages:
(1) Opportunity.
(2) Time.
That's All For Now . . .
8/10/22
Of course, in my early youth, I had no idea what adversity was, or character, outside of my favorites (Beanie and Cecil) from the cartoons I watched, but I noted the way my father would trumpet those three words as if they could neatly pack up and put to bed any unpleasantness in life. So I paid attention.
Then, as I got a little older, I began to realize that it meant something along the lines of tough times can make you a better person, whatever doesn't kill me type of thing. Well, by that time I was a wild child of the 60's and determined to get my own character in my own way, thinking I could side-step the worn-out ways of the establishment. After all, I was artsy, a ridiculously rebellious teen (third child) and completely indestructible.
Now, it's fifty years later and those words fit comfortably, like an old pair of shoes. Ultimately, just being mindful and trying to glean the most out of all forms of life experience, good, bad, indifferent, has served, has helped build me.
This pandemic, that we are yet still in the midst of, has turned out, for me, to be a true beginning, a new life. It has gifted me with two major advantages:
(1) Opportunity.
(2) Time.
That's All For Now . . .
8/10/22
Who Do I Think I Am?
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