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Letter to my younger self

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Hello! Hello! It's been really long, and a lot has happened in these in-between times. I will not spend my words discussing all the events in this post, but I will surely share a few lessons learned along the way. I wanted to do it in a format that I have missed over the years, writing letters. I watched a theater play about letters shared between two friends over the years, then I read a book about letters exchanged between a female American author and a male who worked at a bookstore in London. This was followed by 'letters' as a theme that was chosen for our monthly reading club. And the letter that I wrote as my read is published in this post. When I stumbled upon life lessons as an adult, I thought, what if I had known these lessons at a younger age? That idea sprouted and transformed into the letter to my younger self below. It was not easy to write in all those lessons with 'no spoilers' of the events that may follow. I didn't really want it to sound like...
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Life's own longing Zoltan Tasi on Unsplash Your children are not your children. They are the sons and daughters of Life's longing for itself. They come through you but not from you, And though they are with you yet they belong not to you. At least some of you might have read these wise lines by Lebanese-American poet, painter & philosopher, Khalil Gibran. The first time I happened to read them, I was not a parent and I definitely wasn't wise. Having two kids and getting older with aging parents surely grants some wisdom and only now I can understand the true meaning of those lines. I chose to write about a sensitive (and very likely a controversial) topic today because of a discussion that I had a few months back on our family group. The discussion revealed many valid pain points and an in-depth understanding of each point drew my attention to the first principles of our relationships with ourselves, each other, and most importantly with our children. The lines in the ...