Amma( my mother) just passed 58 years. If it were as per old rules she would have 'retired' from service at this age!
Appa ( dad) is 66. He falls into the 'elderly' category now,in medical parlance at least!!
I am almost half way to where amma is!!!
I have crossed the stages of 'hope', 'will', 'purpose','competence' and 'fidelity' as Erik Erikson chooses to analyse and stage human psychosocial development into.( Or have I?)
The only stages that I have to cross to reach where amma is are: LOVE( intimacy vs isolation) and CARING ( generativity vs stagnation)
Or so Erikson says.
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hate to sound so blue, but being in final year of mbbs often makes it seem like its already time for ego integrity vs. despair.
So also it feels when you prepare for MD exams. I so regret the combative aggression for the sake of oneupmanship at the exams. I ask forgiveness from all those friends.Some I patched up with.Some ( one) has stayed incommunicado.
somehow i always feel we'd all do a lot better if we didn't think too much, but that's just me
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