Between me and my daughter, we have this ritual of caressing wherever the other person is hurt followed by a kiss on the wound, apparently making the pain go away. The point of doing this was obviously to teach her that wounds and pains don’t recover from medicine alone, but love too. Recently I got a pimple on my cheek and I (very happily) didn’t leave a single opportunity to show it to my daughter to receive a beautiful soft kiss from her on my cheek, as long as the mark is there. Today was no exception, I was making puppy face pointing to the mark on my cheek asking her for some pampering. She paused a while, put her palm on my lips. I kissed her palm instinctively and she pressed it on my cheek. Then she picked up my hand at the wrist and caressed my cheek with my palm. She, then, held up my palm on my lips and pressed on my cheeks. It took me a while to understand her repeated movement. And her teaching revealed – Self love.
She was making me caress and kiss my own cheek. She was teaching me
self-love. Yes, you read it right and I want to make myself believe it, so
saying it again. My 22 months old daughter was teaching me Self-Love! She was
making me shower, on myself, the love I shower on her and I expect from her.
Yes people. We shower all our care and love on people we care for and we expect
the same way from others when we are hurt or wounded or just like that. What we
don’t do is care for ourselves or love ourselves, tend our wounds and pains with
our own love and patience, give ourselves the loving attention that we too need.
I, for sure, intend to start doing what my daughter taught and reminded me. Not because I don’t want others to love me but because I want to set the same example for her. What she taught me today from natural instincts, she will definitely forget the lesson by the time she grows up, thanks to social conditioning. I intend to be her reminder like she was for me today. Just in case, you or I still don't believe it - my 22 months old taught me self-love!
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