Magic

One of the biggest assets to childhood is magic, believing everything is possible, in Santa, the Easter bunny, fairies, witches, ghosts (though still when there’s an odd sound in the middle of the night I hide under my covers) there is a mythical believe that goes away as they grow but while they still got it, it’s wonderful to see how everything can be fixed with a kiss, a hug or fairy dust.

To them we’re magical, we know everything and we whip butterflies out of nothing and nowhere, every time they gasp or utter “Wow” I know it happened, I know they just had a magical moment.

I’ve heard many times magic is as powerful as the belief behind them, if that is true then magic must be real because there is nothing more powerful than a child believing.

Trust

I am amazed of the level of trust we are given.

To the children our word is golden, that is a gift we should be careful with, the fact that everything is new to them makes our information that much more important, it's the first time they hear it they can't compare it, they can't tell when we're lying or embellishing the truth and because of this sometimes we choose to joke around with their very serious questions, to lie because we think they're not ready for the answer or because their very simple question seems silly and obvious.

I wish every now and then I had that level of trust on the people surrounding me, a trust that says I know you’ll be there no matter what and you will always be honest with me, I try to always be honest with them, to a level where they can understand and their curiosity can be satisfied, when I make promises I keep them, to them I’m trustworthy and to me that’s a great present.

Trust is very important and as adults we understand what it means when the trust is broken, so as the figure that we are in their lives let’s try to never break it.

Pas•sion

Pronunciation: \ˈpa-shən\
Function: noun
Etymology: Middle English, from Anglo-French, from Late Latin passion-, passio suffering, being acted upon, from Latin pati to suffer — more at PATIENT
Date: 13th century
4 a (1): EMOTION (2) plural: the emotions as distinguished from reason b: intense, driving, or overmastering feeling or conviction c: an outbreak anger
5 a: ardent affection: LOVE b: a strong liking or desire for or devotion to some activity, object, or concept d: an object of desire or deep interest

Most grownups have lost this wonderful emotion, we are no longer holding a strong liking or desire towards anything, let alone the little things in life, such as eating homemade brownies, wearing your favorite outfit or your favorite color, granted, reason is needed as adults, so the difficult decisions are made, the bills paid and our responsibilities met, but must we lose the “intense driving, or overmastering feeling or conviction”?

One of my favorite things of my little ones is their amazing passion, they are still intense about their surroundings, their life, what they eat, how they dress, who they are. Shouldn’t we be more like them? Let’s be more intense and less reasonable, let’s get overmastered by a feeling or conviction, this world could use it.