I saw this sign over the weekend and it caught my eye, so I took a picture. Losing your personal residence can be a very traumatic event. Especially to the adult who has labored and chored to provide not just a house, but a home for their family. Yet here, in this picture, a child (assumedly) has drawn a ‘heart’ and a ‘star’ to decorate the sign. And the more I thought about the event (foreclosure) and how a child perceives it, the more hope filled my vision as I looked upon the sign.
So I ask a simple question to anyone who wants to answer.
“What does foreclosure look like to a kid?”
Ain’t “For Closure” spelled “Foreclosure”?
Heh, yeah I was trying to play with words.
“I am giving my home back to the bank for closure”
The child has no way to record the untimely closure therefore the event is “tagged” for processing much later in life. This is as it should be, freeing the child to experience the experience, simply. As a child begins to see the closures from the past, there is release the child’s view in favor of a more complex beginning to remembering. All the details are recoreded by the child for future reference.
I’ve enjoyed your website! Keep writing!
Justine
@justine
Thanks for the encouragement and the insight. I’ve always felt that children are pretty resilient.
I guess I wonder what post-adolescent processing would look like. For one thing, I grew up pretty darn ‘poor’, but looking back, my brain doesn’t associate any of my upbringing with poverty. My mom was good at that. At filling the emptiness that things tried to claim with imagination.
-later