Parenting is about nurturing. It is not about simply giving birth to someone. It is not about being from a specific gender either.. It is simply about nurturing. And if that is your calling, if that is what your core relates to, you will find ways to nurture every relationship, every thing, every material, every person, every being. And you will yearn to continue to nurture.
When parents in old age miss their children, what they most definitely miss is the lack of a source to share their nurturing with. Because grown up kids don't need the same level of nurturing as younger ones do. So for a parent it is now in excess with no space to share with. This is what causes many to get clingy, get obsessive, compete with the newly weds and even get into seclusion and depression.
One of the easiest way to remain in control is to continue to nurture and find different sources to share that with. You will find peace not just in you, but also around you.
From a parent to a human child, to that of pets, I am proudly now enjoying the experience of being a Plant Parent.
Here is the most underrated healing process no doctor will prescribe. No therapist will recommend. But to me, even as a counselor, this is where you will find your soul resting. Try it.
- Liberating Ariana
