The flower above is from the plant in the first photo, taken on an earlier occasion.
Now the rose bush has a bud in its early stage. To think that in about three weeks that dormant bud would be a flower like the one above brings a sense of anticipation !
I can choose to see it as a small bud or see in the bud a flower in formation !
I have wondered whether I have such an optic of seeing about what is ahead or used to stay occupied with the present alone!
In an engagement with parents a few weeks back, I had an exercise with them to dream about their child five years from now! From the feed back, I realised that their focus was converging towards academic performance. There was a minority who envisioned for their character, hobbies, relationships, responsible living, friendships, and life at home!
It is a temptation to view our children from an existential prism; but it is necessary to view a child as a person in the transitional journey of becoming!
It is by a vision of seeing them as a whole person, parents would be able to create an ambience at home to foster them to blossom to be what they can be!
The children become what parents help them to become!
I wonder parents can shift their focus from seeing a child ' only as a bud' to seeing a child as an emerging flower!
Such a consciousness would reorient parents to offer primacy of attention to children to facilitate their formation! They do not become what we have not envisioned for them!
M.C.Mathew (text and photo)
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