Miss Muffet’s anger with her parents

Little Miss Muffest grew up into a fine woman but Ms. Muffet was angry with her mother and her her father? Yes, she did and just as so many of us do. She felt guilty about this anger towards her parents, and she struggled with it because her parents were loving and caring and did everything for Ms. Muffet. What she did to know was that this is rather natural; for some amount of angst with parents as we become adults.

As a young child Muffet did not have the permission and / or the power to take a decision for herself and she did what she was told. From the dresses she wore, the food she ate, the friends she had, the school she went to, where she lived, what she read, all aspects of life as she was growing up was pre conditioned or determined by my parents. Sometimes her choices were shot down for a more appropriate one as is thought best by her parents. At that age and in that moment she accepted them, moved on and did what was desired by her parents who are her caregivers. She was dependent on them.

As she matured into an adult, Ms. Muffet remembered most of the “do not do this” or the “do that” and they became the point of conflict in her mind. As an adult she also continued to be the child without any say in her life and did what was “expected of her” by her parents, elders, and the roles as defined by the society. She failed to understand that as an adult she could question the way things are done by her, have a choice in the way she lived her life and have the skills and the power to say no to the what she did not want to do. She had a choice.