We are not our parents
We are not our parents
We are not our parents
Though we carry their histories inside us
What they give us is raw material
Some of it includes our talents
Others things that, as a soul-light-being, we have set out to do our part to evolve, dissolve, transcend, upend, lift to the light
Some it is stuff we stepped into for lessons of one sort or another
Or to be a bodhisattva to this one or another
Karma, perhaps, but to imagine it is the only why
Of why what we experience with our parents
or even our children
Isn’t always a pretty picture
Can set for us many traps
We maybe agreed to play a certain role
And maybe it feels like the pain is a massively big hole
Yet takes us, or a larger whole we are serving toward a higher goal
We may be learning to understand something we once judged
In order to help us become more Whole
By Alicia Kwon 2024
i actually recently thought of that Gibran poem and for the first time felt differently b/c while to some degree i get the sense of what i think Gibran meant and for some children it may be a helpful way to find one's own true way, also i think we certainly are "of" parents and need to embrace that, it's in the DNA. And some of my re-thinking was fostered by how Native Peoples have such respect for parents and other elder relatives, and of how the traditions and learnings are often directly from them. So both the child's direct connection with Spirit as well as with the parents/relatives can be honored.
Thank you!
Love and gratitude for you! Also, you may like Khalil Gibran’s poetry - talks about children coming through us but not being of us.
Blessings!!!!!!!!