So they say that our personalities don’t change from when we were children. In other words, the things that affect us emotionally; hurt our feelings, make us happy, our propensity for introversion or extroversion etc. remain static during our lives. What does change are our reactions to these emotions – how we interpret them intellectually and through our environmental conditioning. We then rationalize and react accordingly... applying societal norms, the sensibilities of those with which we interact, and what we know to be acceptable behaviour ... while balancing our inherent urges to express ourselves honestly.

Take for instance: embarrassment, rejection or acceptance, guilt and even pride - to name a few. Exactly the same emotions we felt when we were shunned on the sports field as youngsters or asked to the Spring Dance as adolescents rise to the surface when similar things happen as adults. Most of us learn to put them in perspective, but the underlying emotion is still there.

I've been mindful of this theory lately. Even in daily existence, but most certainly in more significant events in my life ... I'm pretty sure it's true.