A Perspective On the Recent Onslaught of Pictures of Children Crying
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There is a lot of Internet buzz right featuring
the hilarity of children crying and the silly reasons that they are upset. I would be lying if at first I didn’t find
the whole concept quite funny. I mean here was something I could totally relate
to. However, the whole idea seemed to bother me on a level I
couldn’t quite define. The next morning when my own daughter was in a crying
puddle on the floor because she couldn’t wear her summer sandals out in the
snow, I wasn’t laughing, and taking her photograph to commemorate the fit was
not something I wanted to do.
I realized that the things our children cry
about might not be a big deal to us as adults, but when you’re three years old that
event is crucial to the moment they are living in. Children live 100 per cent in
the moment; it is one of the glorious things about being a child. This is a
skill that we seek to rediscover as adults.
This week, in the pursuit of learning from my children, I hope to concentrate more on appreciating each moment. We’ve all heard it
before, we only really have this second and it is gone as soon as it arrives.
So if I find myself feeling upset about something that’s really quite trivial,
I think I’ll take a breath to really feel that emotion instead of rushing
through to the next task at hand. Hopefully nobody will be around the corner to
take my photograph and post it on their blog.
