"What is a success to a parent is often a disappointment to the child. It is still a monumental success. We did it better than our parents, and our children will do it better than us. Evolution. We rose above our childhood traumas. We did good."
"I disagree. I failed them and I failed me! None of my successes were monumental. They simply revealed my survival skills. There were so many dreams I had and lost. I imagine the parent they saw wasn't much of a person at all."
"Great Spirit sees our survival skill successes as monumental feats of true love. We were enough and some of us didn't make it. Some of us gave up. You didn't give up. Stop being so hard on yourself."
"Easy for you to say. You blend into life's hardships with perfect grace. I'm always falling on my face."
"You're a chainbreaker. You're a rebel. I wish I had half the courage of you. I lost a lot of dreams too. Great Spirit is orchestrating it all. Life isn't about meeting our children's expectations. Or those of anyone else. I think when we were heading the wrong way, Great Spirit guided us to something we didn't even know would make us happy."
"Life does give good surprises. But just once, I'd like to touch a goal that I set for myself. I'm older now. What's left for me to dream into a happy reality?"
"If I hadn't failed at certain things, important to me things, I wouldn't have had the motivation, the ambition, to choose a different dream."
"What do you mean?"
"Meditate more. Write down your new thoughts. Nothing we chose was ever a failure, not truly. It's the stuff we recycle. It's the stuff we didn't know we needed to create something different. You're just sad because your ego was insulted by your son. So what! He didn't walk in your moccasins. Don't let anyone's criticisms get you down. And for the grace you see in me, I promise you, that's the very thing I see in you. Every time you fell, no matter the pain, and I've seen you crawl, you stood again. Truth is that the grace I see in you has helped me stand up too."
"Yeah? Like when? What exactly?"
"Like right now. You're holding your own. Not many parents apologize to their children for the things they did wrong."
"Thanks. I suddenly feel monumental."
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