On Your Own

I
Let go
Of your hand
And watched you fall
Not because I did not care
But because I wanted you to learn
How to pick yourself up and start over again
You were never in any danger of being seriously injured
But had I carried you, you would have never had learned that in life...

You will fall, you will fail, you will learn, you will live, you will remember

Photo by Mary

This was inspired by my daughter, who had decided to wait until the last minute to get a school report done. I could have jumped in and saved her from disaster by helping/doing her report as I have done so many other times in the past. She was counting on me doing just that, and that was completely my own fault. She had a four star fit when I told her that she was on her own.

As hard as it was to see her risk failure I felt there was a something bigger for her to "get" here than a good grade. Fortunately for her, or maybe unfortunately, she did very well on the report without any of my help. I explained to her that while it worked out for her this time she should not count on this kind of magic every time, to which she replied, "It was a little exciting, Mom, like in the movies when they only have a minute to stop a bomb from going off!"...

Errr....My daughter, myself ?

Peace - Rene