The book fair is at our elementary school this week. Children may purchase books and they can make up a wish list for their parents who will be coming to the parent teacher conferences on Friday.
I watched one little girl reaching for a paper to record her wish list when a friend piped up. “I thought you said your parents didn’t have any money.”
“They don’t.” She replied.
“Then why are you wishing for anything?” Her friend asked.
“I can still wish!” The plucky little child answered.
“Oh!”
We all grow up being taught a way of thinking and doing things and for some of us those things don’t change much for the rest of our lives. We just keep on thinking and doing things the way we’ve always done them.
There comes a time when we have the opportunity to go beyond what we already know and learn something more, but that requires several things to occur.
We have to notice the moment: be aware of it: and be able to take the leap over the chasm of what forever was and what might be.
It takes courage and will power, a willingness to experience the discomfort that comes whenever anything new replaces something old.
No matter what else happens, a better, stronger, person lands on the other side.
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