Your children are not your children.
\nThey are the sons and daughters of Life’s longing for itself.
\nThey come through you but not from you,
\nAnd though they are with you, yet they belong not to you.
\nYou may give them your love but not your thoughts.
\nFor they have their own thoughts.
\nYou may house their bodies but not their souls,
\nFor their souls dwell in the house of tomorrow,
\nwhich you cannot visit, not even in your dreams.
\nYou may strive to be like them, but seek not to make them like you.
\nFor life goes not backward nor tarries with yesterday.
\n– Khalil Gibran
\nAnanya Dasgupta & I were talking about choices. It is true that choices available to generation next are abundant and varied. As a parent one hopes that our children will exercise their choice with care.
\nSunday lunch with family friends to wish their son well as he leaves for university studies.
\nEducation, knowledge & awareness, the weapons we can equip our children with to change the world, to make it a better place.
\nSaree #71, \u202a#\u200e100sareepact\u202c<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Your children are not your children. They are the sons and daughters of Life’s longing for itself. They come through you but not from you, And though they are with you, yet they belong not to you. You may give them your love but not your thoughts. For they have their own thoughts. You may…<\/p>\n