I have a dream,
that one day, emotions will be a core subject taught in schools.
A class called My Emotions.
How to recognize them.
What they’re trying to tell me.
How to read them.
How to speak about them.
What they reveal to me.
How they can guide me.
How to manage them.
Such an important topic.
Such an important part of me, of us.
Who am I?
Why do I feel this way?
Where is my balance?
How can I better understand myself?
How can I understand myself better,
so I can truly understand others?
Emotions are our life.
Emotions are our every day.
Emotions are a whole universe inside us.
What would our world look like if we taught every child about emotions?
About what makes them angry.
What makes them sad.
What frightens them.
What makes them laugh.
What calms them.
About themselves.
About how they feel.
About why they feel that way.
About the fact that it’s okay to feel exactly what they’re feeling.
Without being silenced.
Without being scared into hiding.
Without being shouted at.
A different world.
With a different sense of self-worth.
With a different foundations.
Even if they didn’t learn it at home,
at least at school they would know that
there is harmony within our emotions.
That all of them are important and needed.
That every single emotion is a sign pointing
to something meaningful inside us.
And maybe then, these little people would come to know..
That who they are is okay.
That getting triggered is normal.
That we can learn to give emotions the space they deserve.
Simply by allowing them to exist.
Both – the emotions and the children 🙂
By not denying them.
By not silencing them.
By not yelling them away.
By not burying them in silence.
After so many years of living on this earth..
To finally give our emotions the right to exist.
And to see how our world begins to change.
We can learn from our children.
That’s the direction.
They are the ones still untouched by the heaviness of this world.
We are the ones who must give them tools to cope.
We are the ones meant to push them toward life.
We are the ones meant to be their support.
But they are the ones who carry the unspoiled desire for joy and being.
Ask your child:
“Who do you love spending time with the most?”
With you.No one can replace you.
Nothing can replace you.
You are the one bridge that can help your child become a better human one day.
Or not.
The world, after all, keeps spinning anyway.
