Injudicious narratives are hurdles to the growth trajectory.

We give in to what prevails in society.

We learn every time, but our formative stages are too crucial to ignore. 
While looking back on my days in childhood, I captured many compelling narratives of those days that were frail and unexamined. 
I was allowing all these narratives to go to my subconscious mind, as there was nothing in my hands and I was not mature enough to distinguish them, whether they were frail or firm. 
How those things rolled and unrolled in my ways of living are illustrated below:
 I was told that habits are too hard to change. With age, I replaced some bad habits with good, applying consistent practices. I found that habits are mutable. They were wrong. 
Some food items were regarded as inferior at home, so I could allow those in my food habits only when I entered different surroundings. They were good for my growing bones and muscles. They were, without doubt, essential to our diets. 
Those classes of people are intelligent, and those are not. This land is fertile, and that is not. In later days, while experiencing these things myself, all these narratives were found to be misnomers. 
 
"We care more about our flaws than our qualifications." Jose Saramago( a Portuguese writer). 
As I recall, there were talks more about a variety of fears than how to address those fears, considering they were real.

While assessing my recent past, when I did something, no matter how small, it helped me come out of many of my ill-designed perceptions. It was self-awareness that changed my lines of thinking abundantly.
I understand that what we are facing today requires the study of events and happenings all around and the functioning of systems on micro or macro levels, including knowledge about the past.

It happens that people love to affirm their self-belief, and they are reluctant to say "no" to what they believe to be true. They grow in a vicious circle until they create a virtuous circle. 
Later, I was told that strength lies in diversity, beauty lies in things scattered, and awareness keeps untested narratives at bay. All these forceful narratives are now catalysts to put my ways of working on the fast track. 
"A beautiful thing is never perfect." Egyptian proverb
Taking this fact in mind, I keep growing, never exerting myself to the last stage of perfection, barring instances where only perfection works. In my early days, people were talking about perfection only. While facing the problems, I could make the difference between error-free and perfection in any endeavour. 
 
When comparing my past and present, I feel elated to say that I have addressed many puzzling variables in my life over time. 
We do not see things as they are, but we see them as we were told to—in the formative stages. 
When it comes to powerful tools for changing our lives, data and technology are currently the most effective.
As technology advances rapidly, options are quickly altering, and we have to keep pace with them. Unauthenticated sayings are getting erased under the emerging patterns. It is an advantage. 
In whatever age we are, life skills matter as usual because men drive the technology, irrespective of its size, shape, and impact. 
Coming to the theme of the discussion, injudicious narratives make us static. Existence compels us to change. So, we have to frame fresh narratives to say goodbye to rotten ones. 
Simultaneously, it is to admit that people are not victims of biology and circumstances but of their creation. 
While searching for the roots of persisting problems like poverty, illiteracy, and social conflicts, it goes back to the polluted information we got in the early phases of life. Folks are still guided by those narratives set in their minds in childhood and youth. 
We need to deconstruct old stories devoid of substance as early as possible. 
 
To stop straying, these six points are important, as my study reveals: 
♧ We have to acquire knowledge, which opens the way to being true authors of our precious lives. 
♧ we have to redesign our frame of narratives by learning from real-life scenarios. 
♧ people are sick. They need narrative therapy to change the feeling of sickness without the factual illness of bodily systems. Sickness is not more than a story for them. 
A woman was afraid to leave her house lest she faint. A therapist instructed her to go outside and try her best to faint. Not surprisingly, she was unable to faint. 
♧ When possibilities are expanding, it is mental blocks that are keeping us unmoving. 
♧ We must go a little deeper into hurdles to catch new sets of facts ourselves. 
♧ I know people are reluctant to change for any inconvenience. But our purpose in life is hidden therein, not in comforts.