When was the first time you really felt like a grown up (if ever)?
When I was 8 there was a massive falling out in our family. My aunt and uncle stormed out of the house taking my tiny cousin with them, and it was 14 years before we saw them again.
A few months later my Nan and Mum were discussing it, mulling about why it happened, and I piped up with “because you’re all stupid”.
My grandmother was furious and dared me ever to speak to her like that again. My mother told her to stop that, because I was right.
That’s when I started to realise that adults were really stupid. I still think that, but then I am one now so I know this to be true. 🤣
Old souls
Seriously, you’ve heard the term old souls I imagine?
You’ll have heard it frequently when a child is born. The fond look, the wise nod, the “s/he’s an old soul?” It’s true.
There are elements of the Big Bang in our DNA. In everyone’s DNA. It has to be everyone because everything in this universe was created in that trillion, trillion, trillionths, of a second when our universe expanded from a trillionth the size of a full stop to pretty huge. Of course it continues to expand and there is now the theory that it will expand forever, driven by dark energy. A mysterious force!
Cue creepy music, and conspiracy theorists. 🤣
However, our part in the universe means that we all without exception have to be old souls. Sorry those who think you’ve got a special one on your hands, we all start off special.
Just depends what route we take through life. Do we choose the light or the darkness? Love or fear? Kindness or anger? Inclusion or extremism? Listening or insulting people?
So, when I say I felt like more of an adult that any of my elders at the age of 8, it just means that they’d moved further from what it means to be soul. I was still aware.
I’ve mainly felt that way ever since, and I’m sure many compassionate thinkers out there feel that they too are observing a world full of stupid children at the moment, especially world leaders.
Either starting wars, or who’ve let their societies go to hell in a hand basket, financially and by failing to solve problems for at least four decades. Plus more time spent insulting each other than actually doing something, anything!
My life path dictated that I had to stay close to soul, to God, to survive with any mental health intact, and that makes me one of the luckiest people in the world.
So I still feel exactly as I did aged 8, I’m far from being alone in that, and I still think this world needs to grow up and fast.
To do that, we the people need to be connecting to each other and building communities. Learning about each others’ ways, beliefs, experiences, and building bridges of respect.
You know, like grown ups.
Be at peace
Best love
Amorah – Deb xx
Deb Hawken - Amorah 