Quote Originally Posted by cch View Post
I've been through hell and back and "conditioning" is bullshit. You are want you decide to be! Not your parents, you're uncle, your community, who ever! It's on you, always has been, always will be. You either see and learn what to do, or what not to do, and take it into practice. It's that simple. No one forgets... I sure don't. I can remember everything from my past in vivid detail and recall the emotions I had as a child in different experiences. Recall those thoughts.. you felt like shit because your dad did X. And then don't do them! Do the opposite. You are you! end of story.

^^^ Well said. Anyone with half a brain should realize this. Saying your conditioned to be a certain way is nothing but a copout.

Which is why if I do have kids, I will never EVER treat them the way my old man treated me.