As a mom it amazes me to notice the small details of our lives through the eyes of my four year old. There are so many thing we overlook or take for granted as adults until they are pointed out to us by a child. For instance, a boot is L shaped and different from a normal shoe or an airplane and a fish are shaped similarly!!
Recently a childhood friend (Stutie) posted a picture of a cloud on facebook and asked for interpretations of its shape. Not surprisingly, the response was overwhelming with so many of us pitching in while jogging our creativity till it became a cloud of different possibilities just like the budding mind of a child. Reliving the details of the minuscule tidbits of life reminds me of the tales from Gulliver's Travels which fascinated me dearly until I learned as an adult taking literature classes that the book is not intended to be a children book but a satire on mankind!!
For now, my hope is to hold on to this amazing process of seeing life through different eyes and reliving the details once the innocence is gone.
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childhood is indeed precious. We are lucky to be moms.
So true, well written.
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