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In School, Or At Home - A Major Priority -
Everyone possesses an instinct to survive, to live now, and to live forever. How can we best achieve the immortality we crave? If, as role models, we show our children, what sharing unconditional love really is, then we will live on, in our children's minds, and in their hearts, now and in the future.
And how do we go about doing this; that is, achieving a better future for our children? First we must understand our past and our present. Our intellect and spirit have evolved in a step-wise fashion, over the centuries. That is, for every two steps forward, there has always been one step backward. Unfortunately, we've had to witness greedy, incompetent, corrupt, or otherwise inappropriate behavior.
It tends to be easier to accept an "Emperor's New Clothes" mentality, then to question the status quo. Much of the time our politicians, our media, our heroes, and our peers encourage sweeping important issues under the rug, and accepting "stupid" as "standard." But it doesn't have to be that way. We all remember the famous quote from Abraham Lincoln, " . . . but you can't fool all of the people, all of the time."
We've come a long way, but need not give up trying to cooperate intelligently with one another. Aiming toward world health and harmony is our ultimate goal toward really feeling what it's like to be free, and at peace with our souls. And indeed, if we hope to survive, we must always be vigilant, lest forces of ignorance endanger our bodies and our minds.
We are slow in learning the lessons of our past. But, we did the best we could, with the tools we had. Our job now is to encourage our present and future children, in appropriate directions.
Children are a blessing. Collectively, they have the potential to possess much of the beauty, energy, and wisdom in the universe. They are our best opportunity for a brighter beginning.
Our most cherished dream would be, that our children find a better world in their future, than the one we lived in, in their past. We must make the world healthier and safer for them, and hope, that they have learned enough from us, to keep it that way. This is our children's best hope, toward experiencing life as it could be.
Of course, we are always looking for new ways to impart knowledge to our children, knowledge of how to survive, and knowledge of how to find love and peace, in an uncertain insecure world. But we don't have to abandon all the old ways; the education process still requires good honest effort and hard work. Even more importantly, children still learn best from good teachers, parents, and role models, who treat them like worthy individuals, by spending time with them.
When we were younger, we might have been angry with one or both of our parents, because we thought that they let us down. As we grew older, we learned, that they were fallible human beings, after all, and not the perfect heroes, we had expected them to be. But we need not transfer any of this resentment to our children. It might cause them needless suffering. They don't have to be haunted by the ghosts of our pasts.
Before we can teach our children to reach their fullest potential, we must look to ourselves first, never forgetting to listen, and to respect their needs, before we speak. Then, when we share our wisdom, nurturance, and love with them . . . they will know freedom, opportunity, self-discipline and choice. They will be allowed to enjoy their childhood, as they grow, develop, and make their transition more comfortably into the adult world.
There are no simple cures for disappointment, frustration, and disillusionment. There are no easy recipes for happiness. Trying to remedy the worlds ills retroactively, has never been much of an option. But, loving our children enough, to encourage them to revere and choose preferences for spiritual/philosophical values, while learning to cope, survive, and enjoy fulfilling lives, in this real world of ours, is the best hope, to achieve a better quality of life for everyone, now and in the future. It might very well be, the only hope, for any of us.
