YOU, THE INNOCENT
Amar Bahadur Shrestha
October 08, 2008
I have always believed that children are the living images of God. Their innocence is the single most important factor for making me think so. Although nowadays this innocence takes very little time to be polluted, I still go by the fact that the pollution is not due to their conscious behavior, but rather due to external unrealized effects.
Children arouse emotions in almost everybody, because no one can remain immune to their innocent ways. There is a child lurking in each one of us and it is only that we need to adjust to social expectations of an adult society that we hide the child in us in some way or the other. But our response to the ways of children is precisely because the child in each one of us cannot hold itself back.
The language of children is very much emotional. They have neither the logic nor the experience of maturity. What they feel with their basic natures, they blurt out in various forms, whether volubly, or otherwise. They are not the ones to hold themselves back and they are never going to consciously rein in their emotional wants. Because of this fact, no adult when having to face the emotional cries of the child, can for long keep his own emotions under control.
Although it does seem at times that adults generally ignore the emotional outpourings of children, but this would be a superficial outlook. No matter how much it might seem so, rest assured that the emotions of adults have been aroused and it is only the thoughts of acceptable behavior or more likely, status building behavior, that prevent adults from reacting in similar ways as the child.
By doing so adults are doing themselves harm, not grievous of course, but quite un self-fulfilling. Adults must realize that unlike the spoken words, emotions are not so eloquent, but that everybody has them. And these emotions need attention. So that when a child is inside your space, you must never ignore the fact that one way or the other, you need to respond if at least to satisfy your emotions.
Yes, children demand response, but what usually happens is that the response comes in the form of hypocritical put-ons. This is really not what is prescribed if one is searching for ways to be totally fulfilled. If children are part of your space, then you better be prepared to bare yourself a little more. Not to please the innocent child, but to attain greater fulfillment.
You have a child buried deep inside your psyche, and this is the real you, before all those polluting effects took over to make you ashamed to admit even to yourself that you loved yourself more then. Now is the time to see children and feel reawakened at your loss, and then do something about this.
Children will then act as catalyst to change the way you behave and bring out the child in you. You will be much happier if you can accept that you will always be part child throughout your life, and if you can do so, you will be much more happier than the ninety nine percent who have no idea of what they are missing. Imagine that what they are missing does not need to be searched for anywhere on earth, but within themselves.
Children are God, and you should be the worshiper. Here one need not take the word literally but rather in a symbolic way. All this God wants is a response, in the form of truthful emotional feedback. And one can be safe with the thought that its innocence will prevent it from harming you in any way at all because of your emotional exposure.
Be safe in this thought and take more care in responding to the actions and the needs of the children of the world in the non-hypocritical methods that the child in you proscribes. Truth is beauty and isn't it nice to not only be truthful but realize that your truthfulness will wipe out some of the rancor deposited in your heart through years of pollution in an adult infested hypocritical world?
Children arouse emotions in almost everybody, because no one can remain immune to their innocent ways. There is a child lurking in each one of us and it is only that we need to adjust to social expectations of an adult society that we hide the child in us in some way or the other. But our response to the ways of children is precisely because the child in each one of us cannot hold itself back.
The language of children is very much emotional. They have neither the logic nor the experience of maturity. What they feel with their basic natures, they blurt out in various forms, whether volubly, or otherwise. They are not the ones to hold themselves back and they are never going to consciously rein in their emotional wants. Because of this fact, no adult when having to face the emotional cries of the child, can for long keep his own emotions under control.
Although it does seem at times that adults generally ignore the emotional outpourings of children, but this would be a superficial outlook. No matter how much it might seem so, rest assured that the emotions of adults have been aroused and it is only the thoughts of acceptable behavior or more likely, status building behavior, that prevent adults from reacting in similar ways as the child.
By doing so adults are doing themselves harm, not grievous of course, but quite un self-fulfilling. Adults must realize that unlike the spoken words, emotions are not so eloquent, but that everybody has them. And these emotions need attention. So that when a child is inside your space, you must never ignore the fact that one way or the other, you need to respond if at least to satisfy your emotions.
Yes, children demand response, but what usually happens is that the response comes in the form of hypocritical put-ons. This is really not what is prescribed if one is searching for ways to be totally fulfilled. If children are part of your space, then you better be prepared to bare yourself a little more. Not to please the innocent child, but to attain greater fulfillment.
You have a child buried deep inside your psyche, and this is the real you, before all those polluting effects took over to make you ashamed to admit even to yourself that you loved yourself more then. Now is the time to see children and feel reawakened at your loss, and then do something about this.
Children will then act as catalyst to change the way you behave and bring out the child in you. You will be much happier if you can accept that you will always be part child throughout your life, and if you can do so, you will be much more happier than the ninety nine percent who have no idea of what they are missing. Imagine that what they are missing does not need to be searched for anywhere on earth, but within themselves.
Children are God, and you should be the worshiper. Here one need not take the word literally but rather in a symbolic way. All this God wants is a response, in the form of truthful emotional feedback. And one can be safe with the thought that its innocence will prevent it from harming you in any way at all because of your emotional exposure.
Be safe in this thought and take more care in responding to the actions and the needs of the children of the world in the non-hypocritical methods that the child in you proscribes. Truth is beauty and isn't it nice to not only be truthful but realize that your truthfulness will wipe out some of the rancor deposited in your heart through years of pollution in an adult infested hypocritical world?
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