Exploring Happiness #30- Innate Knowledge Poem by June Stepansky

Children always tell the truth.
If they don’t like you,
they tell you.

They might like yellow,
but not purple.
They might like broccoli,
but not string beans.

Grown-ups may have to spend
ten years on a therapist’s couch
to find out what they like,
but children know what they like
as soon as they are born!


What happens to the ability we have as children to understand ourselves and know what we want.
Some of that ability gets lost in the expectations that our families and our society demand of us.
At some point in our lives we may want to re-evaluate our choices to be certain that our decisions reflect the honesty of our desires rather than the expectations of others.
Because our choices determine the direction of our lives, it is vital to our ultimate happiness that they be the choices that are in harmony with our true nature.

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You don’t have to buy from anyone.
You don’t have to work at any particular job.
You don’t have to participate in any given relationship.
You can choose.
Harry Browne

It is how we win, how we lose,
how we live or die,
finally, how we choose.
R. H. Blythe