Mama Knows Best

When I was a little girl, I used to flap my arms.

To this day, I can't explain why I did it. But I know that, if my child did it, I'd call the doctors, the psychologists, the specialists, the psychics, ad nauseum.

My mom believed that, when I flapped my arms, I was concentrating, being creative and focusing. She also recounts that it was "sooooo cute!" :)

And, you know what? Even a 1970s Mom knows best...

I'm not a terribly unusual adult. I don't have any unusual habits or behaviors to this day, though some may disagree should they know me intimately, ha ha! I twiddle my fingers some. And, as my mom explains, I meditate a lot on circumferential things. (In the simplest form - circumferential means "circular".)

Look at many world cultures and religions - they focus on fires, water and the growth of plant life. They sit in circles and speak in tongues amongst each other to  become closer to a higher being. In the book Siddhartha, he gives up all worldly possessions and wanders into the forrest.

Poet Khalil Gibran, whose birth town I have been fortunate enough to see in person, believes that nature and peace are one entity. Doubt me? Read "The Prophet". It'll change your life, if you focus on what you are reading.

You know what? I'm GLAD my mom didn't think I was unusual. I'm glad she didn't diagnose me with some unknown form of autism. I'm glad that I can sit, with a wee bit of frustration, in a traffic jam and spell license plates backwards and forwards and make words out of them while I wait. I'm very happy that I can listen to the same song over and over again (even welcome it) when Lu or Henry ask me to play a song for them in the car.  I'm glad that I was born blessed with a talent to learn languages, dialects and, even accents. (I wish I had been born with even basic math talents, alas...such is life...) I'm glad that I can write like the wind and smile like the sun.

Mama knows best - if you are ok with your child the way he/she is, you are probably right. Enjoy them. They will grow into their own unique and interesting humans. And, if you find that your child marches to his/her own beat, that's ok, too. Because, the world would be far less intersting (and advanced!) without its own set of "different drummers".

Afterall, you'd have to be pretty "out there" to invent something such as electricity, cell phones or even a Wii...ha ha!

Good evening, all - just my thoughts for the night! :)