Just Attract It

Do our children have some sort of key to the mysteries of life? Do they have answers we have often overlooked? Do adults make things too complex sometimes? Think too much perhaps? Maybe answers are all around us, but we look in the wrong places. Sometimes, we are blind. We create our own reality.

One time my daughter was playing darts with her dad. He was trying to get a bullseye. After many failed attempts, Shianne looked at him as though he were stupid (in an innocent way). She said to him, "Poppa, if you want the dart to go into the bullseye, just attract it." She was probably around 7 years old at the time. She said this as if we were stupid, like 'duh parents!!' (The other day she told me if she knew it would be this hard raising parents she wouldn't have done it). What did she mean? My husband didn't quite know, and neither did I. Could it have to do with believing in something, or the power of positive thinking? In any case, my husband tried "attracting it", and it worked - bullseye. Coincidence?

I believe she has some sort of innocent, untouched, untainted insight into the ways of the world. Maybe all children are born with it, and then we lose it because no one tapped into it. We always seem to try and shape or mold our children into what we "want" them to be, or think they should be. How about just letting them Be? Our children have much to teach us, if we're willing to be still and listen.

I should have named the blog 'Shianne's Lessons for Me.' :)