![]() ![]() My yelling & running prompted my heroic older brother Peter to come over and get rid of it. Did it traumatize me for life about snakes ? No, but I'm not about to go snake hunting, nor own a pet snake ! Very generally, the younger you are from the time you can remember, the more "magnified" would be your memory of something traumatic. A serious fall or other injury may be remembered for life, because of the terror of being injured, and possibly the extreme body pain involved.Ĭoming to realize the actual magnitde of the trauma when we are older does help the perspective but sometimes there is a subconscious that still influences that person. A personal example (not on my list): At age 5 a 3-foot snake started slithering out of a bush, headed directly to me. Without going into precipitating factors, consequences both positive (heroic rescues) and negative (those who couldn't be saved) are remembered for life. On a more mundane level, common automobile travel has the same complex set of factors, as studied by engineers over the decades, toward the interests of countervailing human error in such ground travel. The predictable factors include travel during inclement weather. Airplanes either fly, or are held at the airport. Each aircraft is a billion-dollar decision. That algorithm is not simple (by nature of an algorithm as a complex formula or computation). Nor is the ultimate decision of yes or no: take off or stay put. In 20-20 hindsight we all know or can read about the singular or multiple human errors and factors that had life-changing (or ending) consequences for those involved-but inevitably also their own family members, co-workers and friends. What we in contract drafting have called "Acts of God" or similar language. Such moments can be predictable with varying degrees of probability, or seemingly at total randomness. I'm not a psychiatrist, nor do I play one on TV. But with lots of life experience, I don't remember the exact point in time when I stopped to consider this concept - even though we all experience these 'defining moments' on a regular basis.ĭefining moments are just as what these would suggest: a profound influence from something in your life that is going to somehow alter the course that your life is going to take, either partially or in a major way from some external condition or event.
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