There are life events that can destroy the personality, which is a lot more fragile than most people imagine, constructed as it is from bits provided by others in the most haphazard way. People can be torn down to the core, "shattered," as the expres...
Farid, you are keeping a hawk; don't expect her to lay eggs like a chicken.
When I got to the States and started going to an American high school, which I did for an extremely short time, I thought everyone around me was insane, the way they talked about their parents. I thought the parents were insane too, the way they hand...
But it turns out that people who are grounded and secure don't change much under stress. That's what being grounded means.