My four-year-old son declared one day, “Mommy, you are not my mom.” Imagine my surprise!
Here is a blog about what he meant and our entire conversation:
The world is a movie set.
We all come as actors with assigned roles.
Children are not born to fulfill their dreams. They take birth for us to take care of them so they can pursue their dreams.
They do learn and absorb some negatives and positives from the parents, society, and environment. All the negatives and positives are meant to help them grow on their journey towards their life fulfillment, however long it takes.
Children come with an innate knowledge of their life path and their connection to the Divine, but the adults/parents miss that communication from them most of the time.
Sometimes children are very obvious in stating their Divine connection; sometimes, they are not. They do have the wisdom from which we can learn spiritual insights. They come as reminders for our spiritual growth. Perhaps next time you hear a child say something that seems imaginary or beyond your understanding, be open to hearing them out and considering the possibility that they could be giving a glimpse into the Truth we’ve forgotten.
My son was a very quiet child and a late talker. He hardly spoke any complete sentences. I was a quiet parent, too, so perhaps that contributed to his late speech. One usual afternoon, after my four-year-old son woke up from his nap, he announced in his sweet casual tone, ‘Mommy, you are not my mom.’
For a moment, I thought he was angry at me for some reason; therefore, he’s decided to disown me as his mother. However, he didn’t sound mad. So I asked him, ‘What makes you say that?’ He replied again, “Mommy, you are not my mom, and I am not your son.”
I was taken aback by this double pronouncement. I even wondered if someone had put a lie in my son’s head that he was an adopted child.
I inquired again what he meant by his statement. He calmly elaborated, “Mom, you are pretending to be my mom, and I’m pretending to be your son. You are not a mom (my name according to him), and I am not Vik (his name). It (Life) is just a pretend game”.
And So It Is! A four-year-old boy speaks the ancient wisdom of the sages. Life is all a pretend play.
I was thrilled with joy and relieved that the little child already knew this profound Truth. This Truth is a fact of the earthly life we all typically forget as we grow in age. Our life journey entails then going through life experiences that take us back to remembering this Truth.
We are eternal, intelligent souls who take on bodily forms to be born to parents, family, and environment that provide us our unique set of experiences. Good, bad, or ugly are experiences that best suit our individual spiritual growth while in the body. We all have our uniquely independent journeys and destinies.
When we start believing that our only identity is our body and mind, we also start getting too attached to our loved ones believing they are bodies and minds. We want to hold them tight and impose our fears and beliefs on them consciously or unconsciously. Love is guiding them as best as we know and freedom to explore their pathway to growth.
Life is a role play. Everyone is playing a role in their selection. You do not ‘own’ your child since the child is on their independent path. We must give everyone space and time to figure out their way guided by their intelligent internal thermostat, however rocky or smooth that may be.
Children give us many hints or direct statements of their current life journey they pre-design before birth. They do have a fantastic undiluted connection to the Divine that comes through to teach us.
My children have been some of my best teachers. Listen for those words of wisdom from them. They surprise us; they teach us; they delight us.
My two little children – 4 and 5 revealed a tremendous insight to me during their innocent little summertime squabble—that story to be continued in the blog Children bring profound insights
Joyful discovery of life to all,
Ritu
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