NIÑA INTERIOR / INNER CHILD
"Perdona tu historia / Forgive your history"
Explicación / Explanation:
Cada vez que disfrutaban de algo, me regalaban la mejor de sus sonrisas y abrazándome exclamaban:
-"Estas son las cosas buenas de la vida"- decían, de la manera que sabían (las cosas "bien" en lugar de "buenas").
Siempre les daba muchos besos y les confirmaba: -!Pues claro!.
Podían referirse a cualquier suceso que les agradase, desde que los arropase con la toalla al salir de la playa cuando hacía fresquito hasta el acto de meterse en mi cama un domingo temprano por la mañana.
El más pequeño hasta hace poco, todavía recordaba como uno de los mejores días de su vida la tarde que llovió granizo y abrimos la puerta del garaje para observarlo más de cerca.
Solía disfrutar mucho al relatar con todo lujo de detalles cómo intentaba atrapar los pedacitos de hielo en el aire y se los metía en la boca mientras empapado, daba saltos de alegría en la acera. !Cómo si no hubiésemos disfrutado de aquel momento juntos!.
Los niños tienen el don de hacernos regresar a la infancia, tanto para bien como para mal.
Nadie como ellos para desenterrar recuerdos que creímos dejar atrás y que sin embargo, siempre nos acompañarán, hasta el final.
Pero su influencia en nosotros va más allá.
En mi caso, por mi naturaleza infantil nunca tuve mucha dificultad a la hora de ponerme a la altura de los más pequeños.
De hecho, hasta bien entrada en la edad adulta, todavía hallaba refugio en mi mundo de imaginación y fantasía, desde el que solía ver la realidad tras unos binoculares de color rosa.
Fue a partir de convertirme en madre que eso, poco a poco, comenzó a cambiar. No por elección, sino porque no me quedó más remedio.
A mí, crecer a su lado me ha servido de mucho y especialmente, para darme cuenta de que mi mayor virtud o defecto siempre fue ser demasiado conformista.
Cuando hice este dibujo (en el que ellos participaron dibujando peces y garabatos que yo coloreé) todavía actuaba sin darme cuenta, como la niña pequeña que escondía la cabeza cada vez que no le agradaba lo que veía.
Al ver este dibujo me doy cuenta de que durante años pagué un precio muy alto por mi falta de previsión y mi negativa a ver la realidad tal y como era.
Hoy día procuro estar más alerta y engañarme menos... Y aunque no siempre lo consiga, al menos ya no me quejo tanto.
Desde su nacimiento, mis hijos me han servido de espejo.
Explanation:
Whenever they enjoyed something, they gave me the best of their smiles, hugged me and exclaimed:
-"These are the good things of life"-the way they knew ( they said "well" instead of "good").
I always covered them with kisses and replied: -Sure!
They could refer to anything that they liked, since the act of getting into my bed early on a Sunday morning to having an ice cream.
The youngest, until recently, still remembered the afternoon that it rained hail and we opened the garage door to observe it more closely, as one of the best days of his life.
He enjoyed telling me in detail how he tried to catch bits of ice in the air and put them in his mouth as he soaked and leaped with joy on the sidewalk... Although I was also there!.
Because just as they remind us of the importance of small things, they also leave us in view the ghosts that we don’t even know that are with us.
No one like them to unearth details of past times that we thought we had left left behind and yet will always accompany us to the end.
No one like them to make us face the children we were, the adults we have become and show us all the dirt we have been accumulating throughout our life experience, which shapes the map of our facial expression lines.
Children make us realize how quickly we get older, how slowly we learn the lessons and the most important, all we need to unlearn.
In my case, because of my childish nature I never had to strive to understand kids.
As far as I remember, I’ve always considered children short and wise humans, and not assholes.
The theme of joy and rainbows was not ever a problem to me either. At the end of the day, I was always the little girl who resisted to grow up...
During years, I seeked refuge in my world of imagination and fantasy and watched reality behind pink binoculars.
It was when I became a mother that I had to grow up rapidly. And I had to rush!.
From the very beginning, my kids helped me to realize that my greatest virtue or worst flaw had always been to settle for very little.
That was how I learnt that I could only settle for the best I could get, and give it to me first so as to be able to offer it to them.
When I made this picture, in which they participated drawing fish and scribbles, I still used to behave like the little girl who hid her head every time she did not like what she had around.
The same one that marvelled with seeing a ray of sunshine in the garbage, denied other people´s faults and whatever may happen, always told to herself:
-Calm down, everything is fine. Nothing is wrong.
Even if it was not true! even if it was too deep for her to touch the bottom! although she was certain that there would be monsters that could bite her toes!.
Nowadays, when I see this picture I can remember how much I used to regret and complain about everything...Just because I denied reality, just because I did not take actions in time to prevent problems.Undoubtedly, one of the most important learnings for me was to realize that there was no older person that behaved like a kid that could take care of other children.
Every day I thank more for their existence. They encourage me to want to become an adult! (Still in process).
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