Back in the day, I’m referring to the 1960s and the 1970s, people would often say, “That’s your mother talking,” when someone would say something based in an old or repressive way of thinking. Mostly, I found, that someone would make that statement when they did not like or did not agree with what someone was saying and they wanted them to behave in some other manner. In my mind, when I would hear that statement, sometimes, I would mentally voice, “No that’s your mother talking.”
 
All of this was based around the fact that during that period of history, people, and human consciousness, was seemingly rapidly evolving. Or, at least, so it seemed. And, the human race, at least those who cared to embrace such things, were walking and believed in a newly formed path to absolute freedom. Free from all of the dogma of times gone past.
 
Yeah, that period didn’t last. Then came a time of intensified self-ish-ness and self-full-ness. That time, instigated in the 1980s, has remained the period we find ourselves in today. Especially since the dawning of the internet and the birth of Content Creator culture.
 
All this be as it may, yes, your mother is speaking through you. Yes, your father is speaking through you. Think about it… No really, truly think about this, how many traits do you exhibit that were first presented to you via your parents? How many behaviors do you hold that you, perhaps unknowingly, express that were used by your parents?
 
A lot of people wish to deny this fact. They wish to claim that they are nothing like their parents. And, perhaps it is true that they have tried to excommunicate their parents from their mind and their lifestyle as much as possible. Nonetheless, though a whole lot of denial may be taking place, there is no way that any person who is raised by an individual does not have, at least hidden somewhere down inside of themselves, ideas, actions, and traits that were taught to them by that other person.
 
From my own perspective, I have spent my whole life walking a different path than that which was forged by my parents. I feel like I had some pretty fucked up parents and I don’t have a lot of good feelings about them due to the life and the lifestyle they caused me to live as a young person, and the things that I encountered due to their lack of awareness about their child. Just so you know where I’m coming from…
 
This being stated, I, every now and then, will see some thoughts, traits, physical actions that I first witnessed expressed by one of my parents. It’s inevitable.
 
So, take a moment right now and think this through. Really, chart this out. What do you do, how do you think, what life-actions do you express, that were first brought to you by your parents? Really define a few of these. Bring them into focus.
 
Now that you have these ideas in place, what have they caused you to do? How have they caused you to act? What have they caused you to unleash onto the life of others? And mostly, how have they affected the overall development and evolution of your life?
 
By taking the time to know and understand this, it will allow you to hold a deep and penetrating mirror into your life, your lifestyle, what you have lived, what you have become, and perhaps even what you will ultimately become.