Grow through what you go through. It is
amazing how one sentence can be like an ocean of teaching. Living through the
experience is the only way to grow. A personal experience is more profound than
any words. Remember how we were as parents, always sheltering our kids instead
of allowing them to have their own share of experiences? And what happened to
these children? Many of them could not create and grow into their own spaces.
But some parents chose to teach them how to reason and think and experience and
grow. For example, children must be allowed to fall and get up, rather than
being prevented from falling.
At every stage from the toddler stage to
adulthood, the importance of our own experience cannot be underestimated. Once
we experience, we learn from it. Mere words cannot change us unless we imbibe
teachings sincerely and allow them to sink in deeply. But we never forget a
lesson when we have lived the episode.
Surekha Kothari
surekhakothari.wordpress.com
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