Children of the 21st Century-ish

You've heard the story; it has been recited in the halls of schools all across America: "My child has a learning disorder." Parents fret and worry, become overwhelmed by the emotional intensity of raising such a creature, teachers are equally exasperated. Does this sound familiar to you? "You're so intelligent! If only you could do your work/behave/adhere to our system." Etcetera.

Do you know the things you tell a child shape who they become? It should be so obvious, and yet we still fail in our duties as guides and elders.

I harbor some anger when I think back on how I was treated, now, when in retrospect I know who and what I was. This, however, is a dangerous stance to take. Feel your emotions, let yourself feel the anger, the injustice, the new-found pride, but do not let it out onto others. Once you have come to this point of awareness, you are capable of resolving internal dramas in less destructive ways.

Do you think these people failed us? Those teachers who made you feel like a failure yourself? The babysitters who couldn't 'handle' you and made that seem as if it were your fault? The parents who you remember as being more often angry than loving?

Let me ask you something else- do you think it was they who were our guides? Or we who were theirs? Or, perhaps, both.

We are the Rainbow Warriors which Native Americans predicted in their stories, we are light beings of a different hue; once unseen in this world, now becoming dominant. It is evolution, it is a revolution, and we all want to change the world.