Self-Esteem…Self-Respect…Self-love. All of these, I feel, are important and inter-related. However, these seemed like hollow terms to me some years ago. I wouldn’t know what these were…to me life was about other people and their approvals, affections and acceptance. Little realizing the fact that being appreciated and liked by myself, was the basis of having a semblance of happiness in this world.

What we are or think we are is what we pass on to our loved ones and others.

Have we ever thought what are we being? What are we distributing in this world?

And I am not talking about money or material. I am talking about generations directly or indirectly influencing the lives of the next gen.

We keep nagging or hollering at our children and adults around us to do this and that. Are we doing the right thing by nagging, shouting and threatening them to function according to our rules and regulations? Are we really engendering responsibility? Are we inspiring them to work on themselves? Or, are we transferring our fears, cynicism, hopelessness and disillusions on to them, telling them that the world isn’t a safe place to be?

A zest for life which we are born with, which is provided by nature to all of us—isn’t that being killed or muted permanently?

What are we inspiring by our actions and words? What are we emanating and disseminating?

So, what kind of adults are we being? ...

...I hope and wish that we all find our spaces in our hearts so that we do not trample upon others in the name of love and care....