Wednesday, October 07, 2015

Like A Child

Lately, I spend a lot of time with my 5 year old niece and 2 year old nephew, and I must say, kids are just amazing.

No, I do not want to spend all of my 24 hours in a day with them, regardless of how amazing they are. 1 or 2 hours would be just fine.

Of course kids do say the darnedest things, but that's not what I'm talking about.
Kids can be annoying.
No, kids naturally are annoying and these kids have a way of working my last nerve, so I scream at them, I ignore them, I do everything to get them out of my way including telling them to get lost.
Sometimes, I scream at them so much that I'm sure they'd never speak to me ever again. But guess what? The next minute they are all like "Aunty Dentaa, Aunty Dentaa", like nothing ever happened. They are able to let go. And I don't get it. It's as if they understand I screamed at them just because of that moment, because of what they were doing then, and they understand that it doesn't mean I don't love them.

Wouldn't the world be so much more refreshing if we could all take a scolding like a child, if we could all see this world like a child, if we could all just chill like a child? My 5 year old niece, she's already growing up too fast and sometimes she wants to act like, "Aunty Dentaa screams too much, so let me stay away from her", but even she can't keep that up. As for the 2 year old, sometimes I feel like going like, "why are you still talking to me, why are you still hanging around me? I just screamed at you, remember?"

Is it a wonder then that Jesus said in Matthew 19:14 - "let the children come to me and do not stop them, because the Kingdom of heaven belongs to such as these", and in Matthew 18:3-4 - "I assure you that unless you change and become like children, you will never enter the Kingdom of heaven. The greatest in the Kingdom of heaven is the one who humbles himself and becomes like this child."

Children do not know how to bear grudges. We were all once children. So why do we grow up and become like this?
Let's just all chill and take things in a childlike way.
Mind you, I said childlike, not childish. There's a huge difference.

P.S. I patiently await the backlash from my big brother and wife, my mum and grandma, about the screaming, but please, please, please, remember I said I love them :D

8 comments:

  1. Lol. Infact you are impossible Sis. Seriously I admire your writing skills. Keep it up sweet Sis. However your screaming from me awaits you.

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    1. Hehehehe...
      Thanks big bro.
      I said I love them o... you know they can be impossible now.

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  2. Remember you're their only Auntie ooo so you have no choice but to love them unconditionally annoying or not. SO NO MORE SCREAMING! Lol.

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    1. Small screaming that I'll scream on them too? I promise to make it only occasional :D

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    2. Lol! True though!
      I've noticed it with my own small cousins too - I beat them when they are naughty and all I have to say after is oya come and sit with me fine girl and they forget all about the beating. Lol
      Great lesson too.

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    3. Lol very true.
      We can learn a thing or two from them.

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  3. Blessings......
    and there in lies the lesson, "let go and move on" quite powerful if you ask me.

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    1. Definitely. We all need to learn to move on.

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