C'est la vie

I am so glad that my friend the exskindiver is back to blogging. Like me, she stops from time to time because life takes over. She was the inspiration for Sassy Missy in 2007 and she is still one of the few bloggers that I check almost everyday. In Extremely Funny, she describes a typical day in an Asian-American family. Hers. So many, many things happening between dad, mom, kids, kids' friends, strangers, a dog and a bunny. The post ended with this:

We are not helping our children by always preventing them from what might be necessary falling, because you learn how to recover from falling, by falling! It is precisely by falling off the bike many times that you eventually learn what the balance feels like. The skater pushes both right and left eventually goes where he or she wants to go. People who have never allowed themselves to fall are actually off balance, while not realizing it at all. ~Richard Rohr, Falling Upward: A Spirituality for the Two Halves of Life.

I always thought that I would have kids. I know now that it's one of those things that's just not going to happen. But, I do have my niece and nephews to think about and love. Being the pakialamera auntie, it is not enough for me to stalk them on FB, Twitter or whereever. I also feel that it is important that I know how to handle them during those awkward teenage years. Ummm. The exskindiver is one of my sources of child-rearing wisdom.

Necessary falling. We should allow ourselves and our children to fall from time to time. It is good for us. C'est la vie!