I M Perfect lady

Now, that is an odd question to ask a child.  Here is a little version of a human, learning to be in this experience, and we want to know how it will all turn out.  We will breeze past your childhood, and all its fun, zoom way out into the future and have you decide now, with little experience what it is you want to do.  We have no idea what experiences, wonderful people and places he will happen upon as he moves forward that will pave the way.  We have no idea and they have even less of the way of it.

Maybe it is the expectation of the question, that the child is a seer of the future.  Maybe for ourselves the question is layed out…we want to be assured of their future, because we are unsure of our own.

I would challenge you instead to just go along for the ride in your own life.  To get rid of the itinerary and let life flow as it does.  To be excited in the state of unknowing, to be like an explorer and not know what is around the bend. 

And isn't that what life is anyway?  Do you really know what will happen today?  Tomorrow?  Can you really map out our future so we will always be happy and content, well taken care of without any unpleasant surprises?  Is that possible?  Wouldn't it be more honest to just simply say…"It will be fun to see where you go and what you become? "

Throw out your map of what you want them to become and sit back in the passenger seat of their lives and see where they take you!  This opens them up to living in the now without expectations of doing their lives wrong.  It is impossible to live it wrong. 

Ok, I know you have expectations of them, and it they don't match you may be disappointed, but that is your problem, not theirs.  Guess you planned wrong!

I love that each of us has our own lives to live and that each set is a surprise, a course we can't know what is around the bend.  If we are certain of ourselves, we can be certain we will know what to do as each bend unfolds! 

It isn't what we will be when we grow up, but Who!