Forgive me...
I'm sorry...
thank you...
I love you.
As much as Facebook posts might make you assume… life is not only rainbows and unicorns. Day 15 of our travels my daughter states in tears after a morning of emotional overwhelment : “I wish my sister was never born, and I wish you would die”.The words pierced my heart like nothing I have felt before. I knew that something like this would be on the menue one day. Yet, I expected it more towards teenager times. These tough emotions coming up at at the age of six hit me like a hammer... super unprepared. I tried to neutralize in a conversation with my daughter and noticed quickly: not possible. So went in the Shala in Sunshine House to practice, breath and sit with it.
CONFRONTATION
We actually made our decision: One more year of “freedom”. We got permission from school, we found someone to sublet our apartment, we have a whole lot of dreams and ideas for this coming year as well as massive respect. Freedom often seems like this carefree state everyone wants to achieve. I think that true freedom come with friends. And those friends are realizations. That we are in ownership of our reality, that we have the responsibility to answer our (basic) needs and that we have to define our boundaries and communicate them so they can be respected. The definition of “Freedom” states: The power or right to act, speak, or think as one wants. I would add: The responsibility to commit to our noble chore values and act think and speak according to them.
Stay tuned for our family adventures. The bright and not so bright ones.
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