Trust Your Guides
Photo by Element5 Digital on Unsplash

The function of freedom is to free someone else. — Toni Morrison

My son will be nine next week. Like most parents, I was told not to blink, because it will go by so fast. I blinked. My baby is nine.

Today I worry about him growing up in this world. I want him to grow up to be a good man. I want him to have a happy life, but there is little any of us can control.

My mom taught me how she let go of worrying about me.

She said, “you have your own guides. I have learned to trust them.”

I have carried this with me throughout my life. My mom let me be free, and in this way, I learned to trust myself.

In this way, I am (slowly) learning how to let go of worrying about my son. He also has his own guides. I must trust that by freeing him, he will learn how to trust himself. When he gets lost, he will remember to listen to his guides.
['Samantha Lazar']
['Scfriends', 'Life', 'Freedom', 'Parenting', 'Trust']