My kids are 12, 10 and 8- Nicole, Jared and Jacob respectively. I have never seen more perfection in a soul or in actions as kids. As I have watched over the last few days I have paid attention to mood, communication, stories, actions, excitement, drama, temper tantrums, blwoing up, hurt feelings, and all of the above. And it ALL made sense to me. Let me use their stories to help us identify what we can do as people to recognize our own challenges.
You see, I have said this before, but we are born perfect as kids. As I watched my kids here are the qualities I see:
- Fearless
- open to communicate in the LOUDEST way possible
- Curious
- Inspired
- Determined
- Playful
- Engaged in life
- Emotional
- Not closed off
- Loving
- Open to affection
- Able to act without thought
- Unaware of danger
- not in tune with the bad stuff in the world
- Open to lessons
- Learns lessons easily
When we start to examine our own lives and how we have gotten to where we are, sometimes we have to look at what our actions and our lives we lead are like. I would venture to say if we were half as fearless as we were when we were kids, we would accomplish so much more in life because we would not care about the outcome, nor would we care what others thought. You see, so often we work so hard on pleasing others, we forget what it truly is that we want or desire. We sometimes forget what our dreams and goals are because we are so focussed outwardly on what other people think of us.
You see, our dreams, our goals, our visions of what we want in our life, they are ours. they don't belong to anyone else. Kids get this. They understand that it is everything to be able to communicate, it is everything to be able to just exist in the moment. They don't worry about tomorrw. They very rarely regret the past. They simply exist for what it is in front of them at this moment, at this time. It is with age, we gain "Wisdom" which sometimes can hinder our greatest achievements because we are worried about who will say something or what will people think if we do.
You see, we need to be more inquisitive, more trusting, more willing to put ourselves out there, more able to dream, more open to others, more communicative. If we all did this as adults, could you imagine what this world would be like and how much we could accomplish as a human race? The only limit we would have is how fast we could come up with resources for anything we wanted. It is up to us on a daily basis to live the way we choose to live. I am choosing to live in the moment. What are you choosing? Today is all we have..take lessons from those who know how to live in the moment the best, our children.
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