One of the major problems I have observed in our country is that most people either don’t consistently recognize what is most important or they don’t recognize it at all. That is to say, the things that are most important. What I mean to say is that people who stand out tend to be people who stay focused on the things that are most important. People who are admired or respected or looked upon with great reverence. How many of us fit that category?

Some people are gifted with both ends of the same spectrum, whereas normally if you are gifted with one you are not gifted with the other. I am typical in this regard.

There is the kind of dysfunction that results in an individual from observing dysfunction within the family for example. It is not so much traumatic in nature as it is misguided in nature. Then there is the kind of dysfunction that results from observing traumatic events in the home for example, traumatic events that ultimately traumatize the child observing these things. And then of course there’s the dysfunction that results from direct trauma experienced by the child within the home.