Clarity of Innocence

It’s the strongest children that are the helpful, capable ones.

For a sane and compassionate world, our children need to keep the inner power they were born with.

It’s vital to them. It’s almost equally vital to us as well!

This “balance” has been right in front of us throughout the entire existence of mankind.

Those of us who are without hurt can see this.

Others hurt so much, they just don’t have the energy to see, or care.

Unfortunately, these people raise troubled children that bring more hurt into this world.

They are winning!

More hurt means more helpless and angry children who will grow up to cause conflict, and for some, wars.

Unexpectedly, fixing the hate and conflict throughout the world is an easy task!

Want world peace?

Providing that is even easier than what we do now!

As you might have guessed, it’s about self-esteem, or the lack of it.

All life is gifted with the power to survive. We call it self-esteem. It’s the energy to keep it all together. Life has needs, instincts, and all around awareness, through feelings and senses.

Self-esteem is the power that makes it all work.

People need their self-esteem!

Support self-esteem in the young, and everything settles down to trust, love, and cooperation.

Getting people in this world to see that, and do it, might be impossible though.

How do we get hurting people to allow the self-esteem in their young to survive?

They already hurt. The only control they have in the entire world is their children. Feeling as they do, they have no incentive to keep their children strong.

Of course in reality it makes their lives far better if their children have their own power.

While hurting though, it’s impossible to look at the big picture.

Why are they hurting? Ask them and they will blame the government, maybe the police, or perhaps people of a different color.

Get them into therapy, and after a lot of work and pain, the sessions consistently revert to childhood hurt.

What childhood hurt?

It’s always the same. Endless pressure to be what others wanted.

A complete lack of acceptance for who they really were. A refusal to allow them to remain inwardly strong.

To say this differently, their self-esteem has been crushed!

Their power is gone!

For those who have lived through this, I offer my sincere sympathy. I know how bad this feels.

Life is barely worth living, and sometimes it isn’t. That’s how bad it is for the victim!

It seems we are stuck with the self-esteem of countless children being overwhelmed by other people, all of whom hurt.

One possible hope lies in the improvements happening with the counseling of those in distress.

Stronger adults bring up happier and stronger kids.

Another hope is how all of our human sciences are converging on the understanding that people are only destructive when they hurt.

Our appreciation of what causes hurt is improving!

Once it becomes common knowledge that we shouldn’t be discouraging the self-esteem of our young, that habit of ours will begin to die out.

We have already gone through this same process with corporal punishment. That change worked, and the hitting of kids has died out.

This change will be far more dramatic.

A world of people with their own power still intact will be an astonishing change for the whole planet.

Some might assume it might be more dangerous. It won’t. It’s only the hurting and the helpless that are dangerous.

Strong people are helpful, supportive, honorable, and just plain fun to be around.

Thanks for listening.

Good luck on your own journey.

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Take care,

Norm.