Monday, January 23, 2017

Post 3: Archetypes in Every Day Life

                    In my short nineteen years, I have experienced several types of archetypes or concrete things in my life that have not really changed and probably will not change. As a kid, I moved around quite a bit; one of the things that has not really changed in my life is the support of my family. Regardless of any endeavor that I have taken in my life, my family has always been there to offer support and advice to me, despite them not necessarily always agreeing with the paths that I have chosen or not chosen to take. Also, my family always tells stories about their past and what they had to endure in order to end up where they are at this very moment. It rarely has to be a large event for an older family member to tell the younger ones in the family about their lives. The stories often offer a significant amount of insight to my life and these stories impacts on me very rarely change. 
                    Another archetype in my life is the church, and this is a physical archetype that I am in every Sunday. Whenever I move around, my family and I have always at least attempted to stay in church every Sunday. We go to church to get insight on ourselves, and we also use it as a place to meet up and converse with our peers. The church is a physical archetype that has a good amount of symbolic and emotional impact on my life.

1 comment:

  1. Church and immediate family are strong support systems. They both are giving you insight in the lives they lived. Rather you hear and learn from bible stories or your heritage those hold the same weight in molding you. I agree that church is a symbolic and emotional place as you stated. Church has always symbolized to me peace and hope. Peace you feel standing there with the choir singing and the worries through the week melt away. Hope is echoed in our prayers and teaching of the bible. In the world we live in people thrive for hope and many people find that at church. To be supported emotionally and spiritually will defiantly mold a confident and prosperous individual.

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