Finding those simplest things in life, that can, bring us, the greatest, joys, translated…
As I’d become a mother, I had no way, of stopping the busyness, and the panics of day to day from getting to me. Sometimes, I’d, “unplugged” my life, in the plain life of living from day to day, to find something that moved me, and, reading was my way of “unplugging”—the closest, to the, simplicities of life.
During the long weekends, I’d, sorted through the shelves, and, put those books that fell out into the long lines. From the pop-up books, the illustrated books, bridge books, the general sciences, the comics, the novels………each and every one, was what I’d read to my children daily, the beautiful memories. At that time, the kids always brought me that same book, wanted me to read to them, and, the repetitions, to my young, became, a sort of a, simplicity too, I suppose. On this day, I’d picked up the novel I gave to my child, “The Wild Robot”, the main character, Roz 7134 shipwrecked and drifted to an uninhabited island, and he’s faced with the crisis of survival, bullied by the native creatures of the island, treated as an outcast, but because he’d adopted a baby gosling, he’d learned to be a mother, and slowly, assimilated to the life of the island.
What impressed me the most was, the gray goose told Roz: the role of a mother is never hard. He’d told, “you only need to provide the goslings with food, water, and shelter, to make him feel loved, but not spoiling him rotten, have him fly away from danger, teach him to walk, to talk, to swim, to fly, and how to get along with others, and take care of himself.” This is so of life, of humans, the mothers propped open up that umbrella for their own young, sheltered the children until they’re grown.
I’m glad, that even though, I get sliced and diced by work, household chores, I’d still, saved some time to unplug for myself, to NOT have any electronics’ interferences, returning back to the simplicities of life. Through reading, I’d started, remembering the most natural face of life, that face is, filled with joys, as well as passions. I’m evermore the grateful, to those years of being unplugged, to nourish the two of us, mother and son, so we are able to, enjoy the simplicities that life bring to us.
And so, sometimes, we just, need to, saturate, to tune out all the noises from the outside world, because let’s face it, everything IS going CRAZY outside of us, and, because we allowed those noises get in, that’s why we can’t, find peace, and this woman’s found the peace, through the reading time she allowed herself to have.