Tuesday, 5 February 2013

Editing Out Loud


My eldest daughter will be three in a month. For the past half an hour I have listened to her rant excitedly about every thought in her head and every experience from her day.
She has so much she wants to say that sometimes she repeats part sentences 3-4 times, trying to get it exactly right before she finishes it. She edits out loud.

I would like someone to give me their undivided attention while I explode every thought that’s in my head and spill every feeling and every wonder and every dream and every fear and every question I have had today… but I can’t do this. It is not what adults do.
We edit on the inside. We think, we adjust, we revise, we erase and then we tell the people closest to us a portion of our truth.

I hope I can find a way to let both my girls feel and wonder and dream and fear and question out loud for a very long time.

I want to know them in a way I've probably only ever known me.

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