A few years ago a story told me a powerful idea, and today I want to share it with you because it is Children’s Day, in short and simple.
I was told that the car of my life should have three passengers: your adult self, your inner child and your higher self. And then, they told me about all the possible combinations in the physical location of these three occupants of your car, or maybe it will be, your self-life.
In the first case, it is very possible that we have all been driven by our inner child, because we were all children and therefore in all coherence that is how we should have led our lives: as children. Many people, however, leave it at the wheel forever, and for this reason it is not surprising that some people go from crash to crash, from one accident to another, destroying their self-life. There are people who never seem to grow up and consequently experience all the implications that anyone could expect from having a child behind the wheel of their car.
In the evolution of life, the healthiest thing to do is to move the child to the back seat and hand the wheel over to the adult self that grows and develops in everyone. However, for those of us who disappeared or left the child in us for a while or for a lifetime, we lost the ability to have fun, to play, to daydream, to relax in entertainment or more importantly, to be able to have imaginary friends, illusions and fantasies. It is not surprising that many atheists or agnostics are usually pure adult selves in a visible absence of that child, and therefore, suffer from a kind of emotional paraplegia, which does not allow us to believe, to have faith and to feel at every step the existence of a Higher Being.
In my case, for many years I lived without my inner child in the wagon of my life, and therefore, for a long time I had an enormous difficulty to develop a sustained relationship with God. A process of recovery of the inner child was enough to achieve the wonderful balance when you manage to reconcile your adult and your child, to give space and vital relevance to your God. My adult fills me with doubts and suspicions, which I will probably take to my grave. However, my child makes me believe that it is possible, allows me intimacy with the Father and friendship with the Son. In the balance of these three persons is an idea that in my case has made sense and has grown happily.
In my experience, however, I believe that there is an even better allocation of seats, and that is when you keep your child in the back seat, but as an adult you move to the passenger seat, and then hand over the wheel of your life to God.
Today I thought it would be a good idea to tell you this story, and at the same time to celebrate the recovery of the child that for many years was absent in my life. Happy Children’s Day!
