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I truly enjoy the emails I receive from people about some of my blogs. I've always enjoyed writing and to share some of the things that I have experienced. I find it totally amazing the things that I have learned through the life of another..whether it is from knowing them for years or just a fleeting moment in which they touch my life.... whether it is from a 2-legged life , a 4-legged friend or in nature itself.
I learned something very valuable from my youngest son when he was 8 and it happened as we were sitting playing Super Mario on his Nintendo one night.. I was getting FRUSTRATED trying to get Mario past the stupid creature and jump over this and swing across that! And I thought.... This is suppose to be fun??!! So, I broke down and begged Cory to just get me past this part of it lol With his little fingers working the controls at the speed of light, he tried this way.. and that way.. and when that didn't work, he went another route that just made me wanna scream " Mannnn, you are not gonna be able to get past it going THAT way!" But... as always, Cory got through the level. As I watched him, I gritted my teeth trying to figure out how he could do it and I had such a time with it... This was suppose to be fun, right? Then it hit me like a ton of bricks! Cory was doing what children do so well.. he was taking risks! It didn't matter if the route he was taking was " logical". He was simply, without a second thought, taking chances. He was simply having fun and trying different ways to get to his goal.. the next level. We lose alot of important aspects of life when we become adults. We gain that fear of failure, that others will see us as such and not willing to take a chance.. of taking that leap of faith. If we find we cannot get across those obstacles in what appears to be the " only way", we simply give up. I found and collected some wonderful wisdom from an 8 year old child who was just doing what comes natural to them. Amazing the things that can be taught to us and often by the smallest of creatures.. in the most unexpected ways. |
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Yep, I agree, some of the best things in life I have learned from my son also. Once he said to me, and I will never forget it, and he was young at the time, we were talking about being rich, and he said, Mom, if your rich, how will you know if people like you for who you are or for your money, and I just looked at him and didn't really have an answer at the time. But he stumped me at that moment, because he seemed to know so much, yet he was so young.
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I truly enjoy the emails I receive from people about some of my blogs. I've always enjoyed writing and to share some of the things that I have experienced. I find it totally amazing the things that I have learned through the life of another..whether it is from knowing them for years or just a fleeting moment in which they touch my life.... whether it is from a 2-legged life , a 4-legged friend or in nature itself. I learned something very valuable from my youngest son when he was 8 and it happened as we were sitting playing Super Mario on his Nintendo one night.. I was getting FRUSTRATED trying to get Mario past the stupid creature and jump over this and swing across that! And I thought.... This is suppose to be fun??!! So, I broke down and begged Cory to just get me past this part of it lol With his little fingers working the controls at the speed of light, he tried this way.. and that way.. and when that didn't work, he went another route that just made me wanna scream " Mannnn, you are not gonna be able to get past it going THAT way!" But... as always, Cory got through the level. As I watched him, I gritted my teeth trying to figure out how he could do it and I had such a time with it... This was suppose to be fun, right? Then it hit me like a ton of bricks! Cory was doing what children do so well.. he was taking risks! It didn't matter if the route he was taking was " logical". He was simply, without a second thought, taking chances. He was simply having fun and trying different ways to get to his goal.. the next level. We lose alot of important aspects of life when we become adults. We gain that fear of failure, that others will see us as such and not willing to take a chance.. of taking that leap of faith. If we find we cannot get across those obstacles in what appears to be the " only way", we simply give up. I found and collected some wonderful wisdom from an 8 year old child who was just doing what comes natural to them. Amazing the things that can be taught to us and often by the smallest of creatures.. in the most unexpected ways.  
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