Now the good news is that if you don't die you get over it. A friend reminds me that my body tends to do this symbolic acting-out thing. By the way, my friend is dead. But the powers of his ideas live on. To children To children who read this site, let me offer a clue, for what it's worth.
Life is a big loop.
It's a lot like a computer program. The first four years of our lives is when our loop is written. Then we spend the rest of our lives in that loop. It's OK, in a way, because we like our loops, they're comfortable, but they can stop us from seeing that there's more to the universe than our loop. We're not all running the same program.