Mind Games

    From a young age I have always known my parents to be apart. When I was two years old my mom and dad got divorced and for that reason of being so young I don't even have a single memory of them being together. This for me has been a great thing because in a way I didn't feel as though we GOT divorced per say, it was my normal.. the only thing I ever knew.
   For the most part I developed fine and never had too much trouble but there were those few off and on points of this which were difficult growing up but then again who doesn't have a hard time between the ages of 5-18. Having two different houses and pretty much two of everything is most of the time a foreign concept and thought for someone who has never had to picture or actually live in it. Most of the time I got by just fine and didn't have too many problems with being in the minority of my friends, but at certain transitioning points I needed more than just the reassurance everyone was going through similar difficulties. This led me to seeing a counselor every week or so at points like middle school and my dad getting remarried etc.
    I have a lot of people in my life that know and feel as though psychology or seeing someone who acts as a counselor or psychologist in your life is healthy, which I of course would completely agree with after my experiences in it, however I know that the world doesn't always see it the same way. 
    As I grew older my time with my counselor turned into more of time learning how the mind works, and mind exercises not only for stress but for day to day basis. I slowly began to develop an interest in becoming a family psychologist and had a new found interest in thinking, feeling, and acting and their connection to the way we live our life and all of the things that are put in our way to forget about the simple things of feeling happy and blessed that we live this life.
    This could fall into the category of an ideology I developed. I began to look at the world I lived in as a different place, and I started to think and journal and become interested in all of the things that you could control with your mind and taking a step back. Understanding the way we work as humans through both the science and psychology part but also the way its tied together. So many people live in this world and don't think about the next day or why they feel so sad, upset, stressed, freaked out. Because of the way my life has played out and the path I took being an only child of parents who divorced,  I feel as though the way I think about stuff and act has completely evolved through the time I began to see a councelor. I could go on and on into details about specific events and details but because this is only a small blog that is essentially a short insight to one way that I have developed the way I look and view life, together with science and what I want to do with my possible career as I get older.