'I don't want you to die', he said last night. 'Ever, ever, ever.'
'Why?' I asked
'I'll feel so helpless without you.'
So. He grows up. My son. At 10, he is now able to think of possibilities which can have a lasting impact on his life. His senses visualise loss, loneliness, dependence, attachments. Death.
Welcome to the world of the grown-ups and the growing-ups, Son. The fear of loss will, from now on, be a constant companion through life. It'll stick to you like a leech. The sooner you train your senses to ignore it, the happier and stronger you'll make yourself from within. There is no such thing as death - you just stop living. And fear forces your mind to believe you cannot live the way you would want to.
Let not fear make you stop living before you actually stop living, son. Learn to live it up. With, or without me. Or him, or her, or this or that.
'Why?' I asked
'I'll feel so helpless without you.'
So. He grows up. My son. At 10, he is now able to think of possibilities which can have a lasting impact on his life. His senses visualise loss, loneliness, dependence, attachments. Death.
Welcome to the world of the grown-ups and the growing-ups, Son. The fear of loss will, from now on, be a constant companion through life. It'll stick to you like a leech. The sooner you train your senses to ignore it, the happier and stronger you'll make yourself from within. There is no such thing as death - you just stop living. And fear forces your mind to believe you cannot live the way you would want to.
Let not fear make you stop living before you actually stop living, son. Learn to live it up. With, or without me. Or him, or her, or this or that.
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