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Give illustrations of ways in which specific styles of foolishness were learned in your early years.
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I learned early on that getting good grades and being the best was satisfying. I strove to follow that my whole life until I was in my late 20’s. I just achieved and moved on to the next thing, I never stopped to ask why or to be grateful but just needed to satisfy the next thing.
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I learned that it mattered very much what other people were thinking/feeling and that everyone else’s experience is more important than your own. That being a good Christian meant never complaining or saying something was wrong. It was very hard to unlearn that behavior (as in how to voice things that were wrong and having hard conversations in a healthy way).
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I learned to get accolades for good grades and good behavior. I look frequently for approval and acceptance from others, instead of to God for these qualities.
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If I was a ‘good girl’ and did what I was told, that kept me in the good graces of the adults in my life.
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How specific styles of foolishness were learnt in my early years. The natural energy when a soul is born is fool of naive foolishness. All I think is self , food , play , any thing to satisfy my own desire. And most time parents tend to put the need of the child first before any other thing. As we begin to grow, the foolishness that is already inside us begins to take a different shape. Trying to learn a specific pattern or style, the foolishness that is there ,now as we grow we begin to understand the world and all that it gives and we tend to flow with it and the devil is always looking for such opportunity to use to destroy our lives because he has seen that the foolishness in us allows us to think about ourselves and has nothing to do to glorify God.