cultivating me

me being me and making my way through life one day, one book, and one recipe at a time

a peek into the mind of a teenager

These are my daughter’s own words.  If it wasn’t clear to me how grown up she is and is getting, it sure is now!! Pay close attention to the last paragraph because I think she’s on to something there.  It is things like this which make me look at her and ask “Is she really my daughter?”  and “Just exactly how did I get so lucky to be her mother?”

” I decided to ponder humanity and what makes us unique the most. So I started walking and thinking and I decided that what makes us different than anything else is our great capacity to love.

I mean when you really truly love someone or something it swallows you and its part of what you are and what you do.  It fills your space and person and soul. That’s why when you truly love someone or something you always have a little bit of love left over there whether you know it.  Because to love someone that much and then to suddenly stop….it can’t happen. That’s why its hard to let go of things and the idea You love them.

That’s another thing, our variety of love – the way we can love ice-cream as much as anyone can love a food and then love a person as much as humanly possible those are the highest forms of love we can have for these things but the love for a human is much more  than that for your all time favorite food….

But then there is the opposite our feeling of hate. Its so horrid that it tears us apart.  It can honestly kill you. Its the demise of humanity and the pitfall of our existence. But without it we wouldn’t be complete.  We need to be able to learn to balance that’s why we have a conscience. To let us know when things get to far..
So yeah that basically took my whole walk. :) Hope its starts your own wondering…”

Thu, February 5 2009 » from the heart, kids, love

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