If I told you that life goes by like water through your fingers, I would be surprising absolutely no one..... It is a truism. The curious thing is that many people do not usually attribute value to this elementary characteristic of our existence.... And even less so when it comes to the growth and integral development of our children.
For this reason, reflecting on this post, I did a mental exercise on the speed with which children grow up. One moment they are on our laps; defenceless, dependent and extremely fragile, and the next, they are children who are about to learn second grade divisions (by more than one digit) and teach you how to download games on lines....
That's how fast it all happens... My daughter, a little nine-year-old, has moved up a grade. Third grade will be her new school challenge. And this unusual glimpse of introspection on the part of her mother, i.e. me, is completely unavoidable and unavoidable. Sometimes I don't believe that this baby, who is gifted in Roblox, is the same as the one I was holding in my arms.
I am very happy to witness her evolution. To see how, step by step, she has overcome all the fears that every child feels when leaving the safety of home. First it was learning to colour, then the letters of the alphabet and the names of things, now he builds scale models of the solar system with his little hands, and in the meantime he sings Dua Lipa while putting together a playlist.
Yes, it's like that...They leave you speechless.There are no transitions and no adjustment times.It's as shocking as it is amazing. "Mommy, I only have 3 more grades left in school before I have to change the colour of my shirt".I swear, after hearing those words, my legs froze..... I think they are at two thousand per hour, while we, their parents, want more of a smooth transition.Which is incompatible...
And it is precisely us, fathers and mothers, that sometimes we tend to forget what our purpose in the lives of our sons and daughters really is; and it is nothing more than to support them, love them and prepare them for the conditions they will face throughout their stay on this existential plane.They are our greatest and best creation.We are privileged witnesses of their successes and failures.
In the photographs, my little girl is with her classmates.Children, who are like her second family.They have known each other since the nursery stages (before Kindergarten), and still continue to "unlock" knowledge with each school year they leave behind. A valuable lesson in true support and love is what I can highlight from this closing of the school year. For them, the world is too irresistible an adventure; for us, they are the illusion of a better world.
Hope is the human feeling that accompanies our sons and daughters. Together with the greatest and most indescribable love, both emotions are hand in hand and inseparable.They grow every day without stopping.Their brains evolve and learn with an ease that overwhelms and surpasses us in many cases, their mommies and daddies?As I have already mentioned, time is an ally but also an inclement judge?
For my daughter, I will always be, and needless to confess to you, that at all times I feel my chest swelling with pride and love for my greatest creation in this life, but it is inevitable, and to a certain extent, extremely difficult to describe that there is something that never leaves us, the parents; and that is fear....That watchful fire that wakes us up and keeps us alert every day of our lives.
She has passed and moved up a grade; next assignment? Third grade of primary school.Evolution, time, perseverance, love, adventures and many lessons of learning from a path that never stops to teach us things...Support and motherhood, strength and more strength to continue being your companion and your accomplice in your achievements. I love you, daughter.You already know it, but I love you.
All photographs used in this post have been taken by me, and are therefore my exclusive authorship and use.
