We are what we think. Thoughts shape who we are. These are strong and true statements! People in cultures around the world think a certain way. I have understood this from a very young age.
Being raised in East TN, I have realized what a mentality people have, and some beliefs are truly formed by culture, not fact! My parents, immigrated from Cyprus to the USA, before the occupation of Turkey to the northern part of the island where they grew up, and our extended family lived. I remember Walter Cronkite, and the 6:30 news blasted, telling us about the war. My parents could not reach our family, who abruptly left their homes with the invasion. I was only 4 years old.
It took my parents 5 years to save enough money to fly us as a family to Cyprus to visit relatives. It was 1979, no credit, only hard earned cash. I suddenly went from the South in the USA, to a Mediterranean island, and I was 9 years old. Mentality was huge in my understanding of the shift in thought. In Cyprus, my relativ…
