Duty
I believe we have a duty to the children:
Not just the children we raise,
The children we meet,
The orphans;
But to the children who once we were
Who Dreamed so many great things for Who They Would Become.
When you rise,
Do your job,
Greet the world,
Do you make that Dreaming spirit proud?
Or have you neglected
the first child
you ever loved?
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Once I received this from a fortune cookie, “Keep true to the dreams of your youth.” I’ve kept it on my desk ever since. I enjoyed your composition on this. We never lose our inner child. They are always lurking in the dark recesses of our thoughts waiting to be remembered.
I had a fortune cookie fortune inside my work binder for many years, but it was much less inspiring than that :)
My favorite fortune is, “Good judgement comes from Experience. Experience comes from bad judgement.” I still have it here somewhere…
Beautiful and thought provoking.
Goosebumps.
Shucks. Thanks everyone.
I have wandered the earth for the past 35 years enjoying myself, marveling,loving, writing my poems—so yeah–I have honored my childhood dream. Thanks for making me feel good about myself.
Glad I could be of service :)
It took me several days to work up the nerve to read this… not because I feared it would be bad, but because I *knew* it would hit me emotionally. Yet once I read it, it was a relief. It soothed me. Thank you.
“Dreaming child” is a good name for it.
I like that!
It makes me think of the Hindu idea that the whole world is a dream, dreamed by Vishnu. In this case our whole life is a dream, dreamed by our childlike emperor.
*Applause* Most excellent post :)
I never really stopped dreaming, the dream just changed as I aged. And the change isn’t really that far off from the original either. Which is quite pleasing.
Dream on Hero Boy!
Thanks Rua. Dreams do change… how did yours change over the years?
I remember being really little and saying I wanted a fox farm to use the pelts and be out in the woods, with a dashing of regular farming. Then I wanted to have a recreational outpost which became a eco-resort idea, then incorporated forest gardening, homesteading and the Ehoah philosophy. Pretty straight forward and have always been going in that general direction.
If I find a fox I will mail it to you :)
Thanks for the thought, although in reality its illegal to mail animal parts across the border -_-
My students are oft fond of quoting me back to myself: “Those signs don’t apply to druids…”
hehe ^_^