Sunday, 21 August 2011

Tether

Alain de Botton says that boys carry psychological baggage from their fathers and girls from their mothers.

Sometimes, I wonder why I have a nagging sense of insecurity about my career - why I don't see myself taking a six-month self-discovery break from work and at the end of it, backing myself to find any job that I want with not too much difficulty, when the record suggests that I would probably have a better than even chance of managing that.

Does it have to do with my father? And how his career blew up midway? Especially after the family had bet everything on it, in spite of largely unpromising signs? Perhaps.

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