I have recently been part of a Children’s Panel. We had a mock panel event and being on it I found myself trying so hard to say the right thing that I found I wasn’t really saying what I thought but what I thought others wanted to hear. Do you ever find yourself doing that too? A lot of life is a tick-box exercise, saying and doing the right thing rather than what one actually feels in your gut is right.
In our world of paperwork and red tape, it is often easy to get bogged down in red tape, in what we ought to do. We are told what is black and what is white and it takes a very brave soul to merge the two into grey, to create dust in your mind- to follow your soul rather than what you are told to do. As a child, you learn from your parents and the world around you to shape your understanding of life. It is easy to continue living a life of right and wrong… to not question.
Young children question, young children dream, young children imagine, young children communicate with imaginary friends. ‘Growing up’ one is expected not to anymore, or not so much.
But I believe that one can- you can forge a life which you fill doing with things that you enjoy and that bring joy to others- don’t put these off until you are ‘older’ because then you reach old age and the moment has passed. It is very important to continue to question, to continue to strive, to continue to make the world a better place, learning from our experiences and failures of the past to make brighter and better tomorrows.
