Hello to whoever is reading this (human, ape, E.T?!) I don't really have a direct place this blog is going yet. I do know that I want to write about what inspires me and makes me think. I want this to be fun and hopefully I can get down in words and pictures and the occasional video the awesome adventures that I find myself in in this crazy amazing world.
Hopefully you'll be inrerested too?
I truly believe that life is a blessing but sometimes that can be so difficult to grasp when you're going through the trials in life.
We feel inferior to our friends, our parents, maybe even the person walking toward us on the sidewalk that we don't even know.
Now that I am grown and on my way to different places I've realized some of what is important in life
One of the most important things I have realized is that we need to nourish and encourage the young children of this circle shaped Earth of Blues and Greens and Browns.
SIDESTORY: I WAS IN THE MALL LAST WEEK AND I HEARD THIS WOMAN TELL WHO I PRESUME WAS HER SON THAT HE COULD NOT HAVE A salad BECAUSE HE DIDN'T SIT ON SANTA'S LAP AND GET HIS PICTURE TAKEN.
I was so appalled by this that I almost went and bought the poor kid a salad (it's healthy, not candy!!!!!) but sadly my consciousness kicked in and I didn't because I am not this boys mother nor do I have any say in how she parents. But really what kid ever really wants a salad??! We should applaud him for making such a choice.
I just could not believe that this was the kind of "punishment" a child received for not sitting on the lap of a strange man in a red suit. I keep wondering how the boy was feeling (confused? sad?). I was
confession time: I have this weird fear even into my adult years of people dressed up in costumes. It's more directed at those in mascot outfits where their entire body is covered. It's not so much toward a fun simple costume (YAY HALLOWEEN!) but more when the costume is drastic and you cannot read the expression of the person inside.
So of course I felt for the lil' guy. I never wanted to go see Santa either!
Needless to say I felt sad for this lil' chap and for his mother.
Please show every child how much they are worth and when they make healthy choices, congratulate them for it (make everything a celebratory party!)
Make them feel smart.
Make them feel wanted.
Talk to them. Ask them about their feelings.
We should get back to thinking that the children are our future while also making their present as exciting and ADVENTUROUS and to teach them how to make healthy choices in life. It all starts young!!
