On Sunday, however, I decided to sightread Beethoven's Variations - the Dover edition. P rompted by my recent sightreading of Tchaikovsky and other composers whose books stood untouched on my shelf, I thought maybe I'd discover something in the process. One of my friends said that we recreate traumas we are familiar with. Thus a child from a dysfunctional family will repeat the dysfunctionalities, because they are familiar. We hear of how history repeats itself in abusive families.
Children make the same mistakes their parents made.
There is comfort in the familiar. On the other hand, familiarity breeds contempt. O n the positive side, my life seems to revolve around the theme of separation and saying goodbye. It's familiar - but only until I recognise that it is a problem will I harness my troubleshooting skills to deal with it. Until now, it has hardly been a problem.