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utilised, are assimilated into the child's being, and the
unaddressed issues finally resolved. Should this not be the
case the twelve year old will feel the burden that it carries and
in order to proceed will pack this burden neatly into it's
unconscious. This latter situation will not be a happy one, and
will have to be addressed sometime in the child's future. For
now the child continues to move forward, sometimes guided
sometimes forced. This time is crucial for the child. It is as if
it has arrived at a fork in the road and the decisions it is about
to make will determine which path it will follow. Both paths
will bring the child to the same destination, eventually. One
path will be difficult as it will have lots of "signposts". These
signposts will be suggesting "left" or "right" turns and
offering lots of tempting promises as to the opportunities that
await those who take them. Some signposts will direct them
across to the other path. The path itself will be mostly uphill
and strewn with pitfalls and rocks. Not at all a happy way
forward. The traveller on this path will be constantly seeking
a way off it and find the decisions they are expected to be
making to be very confusing, and the decisions made very
unsatisfying. The traveller will persist because that is how it's
social education has trained it to behave. They will suffer and
move on. The other path, once it is set upon, is so easy, very
little ups and downs, very little traffic, wonderful views and
no hardship. Remember the rule, "If it makes you happy, do
it". This rule is very difficult to implement when you are in a
place of unhappiness, on the wrong path, but when on the
right path there is only happiness and the task is to become
happier. So this is where the twelve year old finds them self,
at the fork in the road. Should the adults in it's life not have an
awareness of this episode in their own lives, who are they then