I casually learnt in precious snippets the parts of herself that she’s discovering. All because I stopped and surrendered to that moment in time.
My daughter once said to me, “Not everything is a learning opportunity, Mum.” I think she was about nine, and I was trying to turn something innocuous, like missing a train or burning the chops, into some kind of life lesson. I don’t remember the exact details, except that it was her first recorded eye-roll, so I couldn’t help but be proud. We come from a long line of excellent eye-rollers, and she’s since shown herself to be quite gifted.
We spent hours watching a countdown that reset every 12 seconds, desperately hoping the algorithm would pluck us from the queue, so we could buy the golden tickets. As if I didn’t have anything else to do . So even as I multitasked with emails and a Zoom call or two, pressing pause on my usual schedule was a stressful inconvenience. But, two hours in, having huffed and puffed and whinged about how outrageous this robbing of my day was, I realised this sitting with my daughter, tickets or not, was the activity.
Perhaps because she had nowhere else to be, she listened to my old-timey reminisce, zero eye-roll. And then she shared the books she’s loving and TV she’s hated, the friendships she’s making and the opinions she’s forming, so that I casually learnt in precious snippets the parts of herself that she’s discovering. All because I stopped and surrendered to that moment in time.
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