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Be Inspired!If you remember back a few months I blogged about happiness being the loneliest of mysteries. In essence, what makes me happy won’t necessarily do the same for you but that’s easy to forget.
Why are we never happy with what we have? It seems each time the goal’s achieved, we’re incapable of saying “ok, that’s enough.” The bar always gets raised higher or the achievement feels empty because we tell ourselves that if we hit it, it must have been too easy.
As parents we do what we think best for our kids given the resources we have at hand. Whether you’re rich or poor doesn’t matter a bit though when it comes to what they need most. Wouldn’t it be wonderful to be able to parcel up things like happiness, love and joy and simply hand it to them? Perhaps. But then they wouldn’t learn much of life for themselves that way either. It would be like looking at someone’s vacation photos instead of being there experiencing it and saying it’s the same thing.
Conversations sometimes bring back memories of the time I spent in my childhood in Durban, South Africa. I lived there for two and a half years until I was twelve. It was the mid 70’s, a time when apartheid was still in place. There was segregation everywhere. Buses, park benches, public toilets, even the beaches had signs saying ‘Whites only’ or ‘ Blacks or Coloreds Only’.
Is it really possible to rediscover the joy, that carefree attitude that most of us remember from our childhood? Nothing in adult life is fashioned to encourage us to take pleasure in the simple things in life anymore. Should we? More importantly, could we even if we wanted to?
I’d like to share this piece with moms everywhere, my wish being that it gives even one mom out there a glimmer of hope on their not so good days.
Based on a real event, it was written in remembrance of what probably seems like an ordinary moment to most people that passed between my son and I. At a time though when I’d felt that we were losing the connection we had, this unexpected insight was all the more precious. I hope you enjoy reading it as much as I did writing it.
I know I’m not alone in this but maybe will be the only one to confess in public that I have no plans to be one of the crowd. Spring cleaning frenzy season is upon us and I’m not falling for it!
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