My parents never enforced this particular thing of children, bleak future if not etc and it’s interesting how that particular ‘bleak future’ does not exist for me, it simply wasn’t conditioned into me and has no reality. Of course I have other ‘bleak futures’ I have been conditioned with but it’s interesting how the differing very ‘real’ futures can exist depending on the particular conditioning one has been exposed to.
My particular ‘bleak future’ (thanks mum ) is to do with dying in painful disease