Through the eyes of a child

April 10, 2009

Imagine that everyone looks at you like a child looks at his parents: in admiration and devotion, as only a child can look. Looks that a full of child imagination at the world in which everything is possible and with full confidence in the adult world: Mature, secure, world full of possibilities. If everyone around you would see you like that, how would it really be? What would you say about yourself and what would you think about yourself? How would your place in the world would be, how would you really look at yourself? What would you tell yourself? Would it help you to assist, and show gratitude? What would happen to your self-confidence, your self-esteem, your love, and how would the world around you look like? I wonder why we often choose to look at ourselves with an eyes of grownups, or in the worst cases with the eyes of our parents. These inner mirrors are so real and so secure that we take them for granted. Nobody have given us another example, nobody have taught us that there multiple ways in which the world and me in the world can be perceived. Even if we look at the world and our own image from our own perspective it still might be influenced by our past experience. Only a child innocence is pure and not yet troubled by any layer of resistance or impurity. Take some time to play with this idea and enjoy together with your inner child.