When Daniel was little, I remember someone saying, you must learn to fall in order to learn to walk. And I remember another story of a girl with some disabilities (don't remember the exact nature of the disabilities), but they had to teach her not to fear falling... I think they had therapy for her in a bouncy castle or something.
But it struck me then, as it does now, that all these milestones of young children or people with disabilities are basically metaphors of all of us in our life stages and developments.
We all need to learn to fall/fail. We all need to face fears and then when we are no longer afraid, we're more free to move forward or (bounce forward as the case may be). And we all would do better if we had happy little friends (and parents) cheering us on!
No one would look at a young child and curse them for now walking yet, or make them feel guilty for their fears... why do we not allow ourselves to fail as we get older; why do we not acknowledge our fears or ask more people for some cheerleading?
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