Quarter Century Life: Every Journey is an Opportunity to Trust Yourself

By P. Rodger Wilson

If humans came with their own operating manual, P. Rodger Wilson's Quarter Century life would likely be it. The incorporation of simple mathematical equations serves up a continuum of what can be expected during the single digits and the double digits of everyone's cognitive development, age appropriate behaviors and relational interactions. While a baby, toddler, or even an adolescent obviously couldn't grasp the significance of the progressive plot points described, their adult selves can easily enjoy in retrospect how and why they are turning out as they are and, accordingly, whether they are happy with those results. How they were nurtured or how they were ignored, Wilson points out, are contributing factors in whether the path to individuate compels them to take pride in their unique personalities or constantly struggle to fit in with the desired crowd and be accepted. Discovering our own adaptability and resiliency to life's curve balls is another important concept in this book, as the invaluable lesson to recognize the things we can change and the things we cant.

• Language: English
• Publisher: BookBaby
• Release date: Oct 2, 2019
• ISBN: 9781543988666

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Copyright All Rights Reserved P.Rodger Wilson 2019

Print ISBN: 978-1-54398-865-9

eBook ISBN: 978-1-54398-866-6

Dedication: To my extended family, HELP1 HELP1

Table of Contents

Introduction

Never Forget Your Childhood

Always Live Your Adulthood

Strive For Old Age

THOUGHTPHABET

CHILDHOOD:THE SINGLE DIGITS

FIRST 24 MONTHS

TESTING TWO’S, THREE TO FIVE

THE FOUR STEPS: 6 TO 9

THE LAST THREE

TEEN TO ADULT

THIRTEEN-DULT’

14-15 NO!

Sweet 16

17 Years, 364 Days

ALWAYS LIVE YOUR ADULTHOOD

EIGHTEEN - ADULT

7 GROWTH STUPID YEARS

The Reaching Twenties : TRUST

21 TO ENTER

QUARTER CENTURY

Introduction

The most magnificent thing that happens to us on this earth is being born. My mom, bless her soul, was a small, sweet, wise woman with a lot of sayings. One of her favorite sayings was, "There are two things you don’t know baby, your arrival time, and your departure time." Everything that goes on between those two times has an age.

After thousands of years of human existence, it’s known that arrival time is approximately 278 days, from gestation of a male sperm and female egg comes together, before the maturation of a human embryo is completed and we are welcomed into the world. No matter when, where, how, time, or sex, from that point on our lives become an age. How we deal with each age may determine how our lives may be affected. Unfortunately, we don’t get to choose our DNA. Whose ever we get, that’s what we start with.

At age 19, After I had done a year and a half of college, I started having parent conflict about Adult control. Upset at myself for following someone else, I was now in the United States Air Force. Here I was really on my own for the first time. I didn’t know what I was going to do? Who or what I was going to become? I was trying to do my part to figure this age out. Laying on a bunk in the barracks looking out the window at the scorching hot dryness of a West Texas Summer, I begin to think about what had gotten me there. The people who raised me? The different environments I had discovered and the society I was born into. I came up with three personal affirmations about what I thought of life then, and how to live it. This motto would begin to shape my outlook on life:

The Motto

Never forget my childhood

Always live my adulthood

Continue to Strive for old age

Never Forget Your Childhood

I once heard an old actor say, I hate children, I had never been a child!. How sad! As bad as his childhood may have been, he was still here. Everyone has a childhood, and I never wanted to forget mine.

A loving family, lots of cousins and friends. We played every sport that was in season. Working with my Father and Uncles, they introduced us to basic carpentry, woodworking, and electricity. My father