Exploring Happiness #41- Childhood Lessons Poem by June Stepansky

Not only children, but the child within all of us also stores memories both pleasant and painful.
By retrieving these memories, we have an authentic record of those individuals who have been kind to us and those who may have been selfish or cruel. This knowledge gives us a more accurate accounting of the forces that have marked and shaped our lives.
Since we are a mixture of the many influences that have entered our lives, it is important to try to sort out what effect they have had on our feelings and our thinking so that we can discard the negative input and value more those positive influences that have taught us how to flourish and how to love.

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“It’s frightening to think that you mark
children merely by being yourself.”
Simone de Beauvoir

For many children, joy comes as a result
of mining something unique and wondrous
about themselves from some inner shaft.
Thomas J. Cottle