You Got The Whole World In Your Hand’s Son!
Oh, the things you will do and places you will go.
You got the whole world in your hand son! We are currently decluttering our home. I was rearranging the furniture in my son’s bedroom yesterday and I came across his jigsaw globe on the shelf. The memories came flooding back. I remember sitting with him at 8 or 9 years old, piecing his world together.
I recall saying:
“You have got the whole world in your hands here now.” “Imagine the things you can do and the places you will go when you grow up.”
“All you have to do is take out the map and choose the route to your destination.”
“If you veer off the road, make a U-turn. You will find the way.”
I was carefully moving it to avoid breaking it into pieces.
Then I thought, so what if it did fall apart? I will piece it back together again. That is what I had to do when my world fell apart. I pieced it back together one day at a time. I picked a destination. I made many U-turns, but I arrived.
As Perma Chodron said in her book When Things Fall Apart:
“The most difficult times for many of us are the ones we give ourselves.”
Imagine the opposite.
My son is 22 in May and about to sit his finals in college. I will bring the globe to him later and remind him of our words that day. What a powerful conversation it was. We need to have it again.
