Mystical magnet

 From Ladies Pass It On

Am I pretty?

Am I funny?

Am I clever?

Your child will ask you one day.

And your mothering heart will rush to answer yes yes yes

but maybe that's the moment we should all begin to 

teach,

that none of it matters.

Maybe we should say, 

"My child, you are a mystical magnet all of your own

design.

And you will attract into your life, people who value you,

simply for being exactly who you are.

It's science and nature inextricably combined in the most

beautiful way.

And sadly some people will see something in you that 

upsets them,

perhaps because they want it,

or perhaps because they have been taught to fear it.

None of that is your fault or your responsibility.

You must shine through your life being exactly who you are,

regardless of how others label you,

it's the only way to wake up every day feeling at peace."

Maybe if we started this mantra very early,

we could save our beautiful, complex little humans,

so much sorrow and wasted energy...

Trying to fit in when they were born to stand out.

~Donna Ashworth