Jonathots Daily Blog
(1993)
It’s never an easy day.
Whether it’s the bird in the nest, the lion in the pride or the crow in the murder, any time the offspring is moved from its location with family into the surrounding world, it certainly is frightening. Yet every species of the animal kingdom faithfully execute this ritual with precision absent misgiving … except humans.
And truthfully, we’ve gotten worse at it:
- In the days of Judaism, a boy became a man at thirteen.
- In the Old West, a child was either married or given a gun to hunt for his family at sixteen.
- Move into the last century, and eighteen was considered the time to escape the rigors of the household and find your place.
Now we have people living in their home with their mother and father into their twenties and even some into their thirties.
Everybody jerks a few tears when they hear a story about people “stickin’ up for family” or “lovin’ their family,” or the phrase, “there’s nothin’ better than family.” But sooner or later we have to have a line of demarcation so that our children can become the next generation of adults, or else their procreation will not be parented well. Then, within three generations, we will have such a confusion of responsibility and role-playing that we won’t know who the parents are and who the children are.
So the time you spend with family should be a discovery of the artist, the soul, the thinker and the worker. And when you finally do get out into the wide open spaces, you will look for those individuals who carry the attributes which have been of value to your life.
It will make it easier to build friendships and long-lasting partnerships if you are free of suspicion and are not prejudiced against any one of the four, contending that one is supreme over the others.
- Yes, if your parents teach you that it’s important to be a thinker, you may deny the value of the artist, reject spirituality and assume that others will do the work based upon your great discoveries in thought.
- Likewise, workers can feel they are superior by sheer sweat.
- An artist can act like a diva because he or she does not understand the pure gold of hard work.
- And a spiritual person can totally ignore the advances of science and reject the beauty of entertainment and creativity.
If you teach your children to be balanced–to recognize the need for the artist, the soul, the thinker and the worker within the family structure–when they do leave the nest, they will easily find others who enrich their lives.
As Jesus said so beautifully, “My mother, my brother and my sister are those who do the will of my Father.”
Exactly. Family is everywhere.
May we all have the heart of an artist, the soul of a giver, the brain of a thinker and the will power of a worker–just enough to give us a balance so we can appreciate those human beings around us who teach us better ways to perform our duties.
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