Basic Understanding

Basic Understanding

When it comes to true understanding, there is no one more compassionate than a mother-type. I say mother-type, because some mothers are not motherly at all. But a true example of love is a small child nested at his/her mother’s chest in perfect harmony. That love transcends time and seems to continue no matter how old the child gets.

I heard a very interesting story about a child who didn’t get the love of a mother, because the mother died in a car accident when the child was one. The young girl who died came from an abusive home. Six months before she died, she discovered she had a stepbrother who became instantly bonded with her. When the young girl died, the stepbrother took the child to raise when he was only eighteen years old.

He told me that he felt compelled to give the child a better life than his, better than his stepsister’s. So, he went to college, had his mother babysit when he was at work or at school, and together they raised the child, until his mother passed away. But there was a small glitch in the process.

When the child was five years old, the young man came home to find the baby girl had been whisked away by her grandparents. Because the young man had never legally adopted the child and because it was long enough ago that Internet wasn’t available, he couldn’t find a lawyer who would take the case, or couldn’t track down the grandparents on his own.

Eventually, someone slipped up and the grandparent’s whereabouts were discovered. The young man was afforded the legal aid that helped him regain total custody of the child. He raised her until she is now an adult and is 25 years old.

She is engaged. So, basically, this man is the only mother-type this young woman knows. In talking to him, I could tell that he held within his heart the basic instinct of a mother. Locked inside him were the maternal and paternal caring features that make his bond so very touching and special and his story good enough to become a book some day, as he has an agent and some perspective publishers interested.

What a wonderful human-interest story. For me, it was way more about how God brought my friend into his stepsister’s life right before she died to care for the child. God knew that he would be the perfect person to raise her. But even so, raising the child wouldn’t go without its obstacles, even if it were meant to be.

Sometimes, we look at life as if it is supposed to have this perfect, unwavering road that leads to our destinies. When we truly never find real happiness or the perfect path to joy and purpose unless we take roads that we would never have expected to take that are covered over with rocks, poison ivy, and jagged glass.

These are the times and adventures we remember the most in life. These are the true passionate moments of our lives when we truly lived every millisecond to the fullest with every cell in our bodies.

Basic Understanding of living life to the fullest takes a true knowledge of understanding how to be in the perfect Now and how to provide all your presence of spirit and mind to that moment perfectly and without hesitation. That, my friend, takes practice.

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Bo Sebastian is a Hypnotherapist and Life & Health Coach, available for private sessions to QUIT SMOKING, Lose Weight, New Lap-Band Hypnosis for Weight Loss, CHANGE YOUR MIND, CHANGE YOUR LIFE! at 615-400-2334 or www.bosebastian.com.

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