Getting older isn’t that difficult to do. You really just sit around it eventually happens to everyone. What is much more difficult to do is watching your children grow older. You see, once you reach adulthood, there is a certain leveling off that takes place. You can’t really track your own rate of change after you reach, say, your second year of marriage. By then you’re pretty much stuck.
But for children, it is very different. They are constantly changing into the people they will eventually become. As a parent, you are definitely a large part of that effort, but you are really only one part. There are so many other factors influencing who your children will become. And when you sit back and try to remove yourself from the process of parenting and shaping those little people—when you just witness the events as they occur, it’s really pretty mind-blowing.
Some days I get so emotionally overwhelmed by my kids because I convince myself that I can mold them. But it’s because I’m a control freak that I find my children so fascinating. I find those differences between what I observe and what I expect to be such wonderful surprises. And they happen each and every day that I take the time to allow myself to really watch them, really listen to them, and really experience who they are and who they are becoming.
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