Children, precious angels!

Aren’t we amazed and inspired by you? You find joy and wonder in simple everyday occurrences that the rest of us have taken for granted. You restore our faith in humanity by simply being you. Your sweet, gentle hearts and loving gestures are every reason and hope for us to think that the world should go on. Your thoughts and ideas, so wonderfully clear and simple, give us life’s logic. Your enormous energy, absolute clarity, and purity of love will always surprise and enthuse generations of grown-ups. Miracles and magic unfolding in your little heads – the world is wide and mysterious to you. You never stop asking ‘Why?’ You are the real ‘Why’s, guys. You help us appreciate life in all its glory. There is no one quite like you, and there never will be. You have everything inside of you that will get you to wherever you want to go and be whatever you want to be, and you know it too. You have great awareness of what fits together with your life and what doesn’t. But along the way, this awareness can get contaminated. The world is a crazy place to grow up in right now. With parents and teachers, gadgets and apps screaming loudly for your attention, it is a battle. There is confusion and chaos all around all the time. It matters that you preserve yourself. Childhood is a fun space to be in, a special time for new experiences, learning new things, and simply having fun. As you are having fun, you also realize that you are growing up. Your time is spent at school and in the after-school activities which your parents enroll you in. Life becomes too serious and passes by too quickly.

The competition and rat race around you teach you how to judge yourself against others and can make you feel that you aren’t as clever as they are. Fear of making a mistake, of not doing well, and fear of failure take over. If you feel lost in this whole pandemonium, if the words and actions of others don’t make sense to you, go back to what matters most in this whole game before the world tries to tell you otherwise… TO YOURSELF