It has been a semi-frustrating blog week…
Semi-frustrating because 1) my internet connection has been acting up since saturday evening (see Limited Connectivity entry), and 2) my chance and definitely unintentional brush with icky porn the other day (see Blogging etiquette post).
Sometimes the universe just throws things at you that you are not prepared for. Good that I had topics to write about, but it can be pretty exhausting to be angry — or frustrated.
Today I am keeping my cool. For along with the frustrating times come moments, too, that warm our hearts.
Here is something that is light and easy…
This morning as I dropped off my son in school, I lingered a little longer and from the back seat of my car I watched as he walked to the school gate, then enter the school premises, and eventually disappeared going up the stairs to his classroom. Somehow I couldn’t dismiss that tug in my chest as I watched him walk away.
I remember the first time my son entered big school. He was only 5 then. He wasn’t the clingy “Mom, please don’t leave me!!!” nor the whiny “I don’t want to go to school!!!” type. Nor was he the one who cries silent tears — tears that will surely melt a mom’s heart and make her want to whisk her child away (like school was a bad place or something!). No, my son held his own… He made me bring him to his classroom, he let me leave guiltlessly when it was time to leave, yet made me promise to be there at dismissal time. And I was there as promised.
He is in 5th grade now. I still drop him off in the morning… but by now I am just allowed to either stay in the car or bring him to the gate (“Mom, that is so not cool!!”). Watching him this morning, I can’t help but ask myself until when do I intend to do this? I mean, at some point I will have to learn to let go, right?
Letting go is not easy. Sometimes we wish we can forever hold our children in our hands so they are always protected. But we also know that by letting them go, we let them learn… we let them experience life… and we let them grow. Because if we hold on too tight, we will stifle their growth. There are things that they simply have to learn on their own.
But we know that whatever happens, we will be there to catch them should they fall. Perhaps what is important is that they have the knowledge and the security that whatever happens, when they need us, we will be there to pick them up…
Every dismissal. As promised.
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