From the moment we are born we are dying so why is it that we have children knowing that one day they will take their last breath?

We have children because through them we have a shot of immortality, passing down our genes and DNA in the bloody line.  Unfortunately, it’s not just genetics that we pass down the line as parents, we pass down traditions, values, rituals, beliefs juts to rattle off a few.
Parents often hold their child/ren ‘captive’, burdened by the ways things ‘should be’ and never really get to experience what being a parent is.

These days both parents work in most families and the child is in after school care or at the grandparents place.  The child is deprived of quality time with their parents, this can have a profound impact on the child’s psychology growing up and as an adult, hindering them in their own relationships.

I was fortunate enough to be born into in a very strict European Roman Catholic family, this upbringing was the spring board of my tenacious character.  I did not adhere to the rules, regulations and expectations that my parents had for me.  I was my own person and did my own thing, I was a rebel and still am.

Now, as a grown woman I refuse to be held captive by what media and what society deems appropriate for me.  I refuse to bow down to the media conglomerates and be one of their puppets.  I do things differently to most, I go against the grain, you zig, I zag, that is the way I live my life and this is the way that I am bringing up by daughter.  When I die, I would hope that she has a head full of wonderful memories of times that we shared together. And me? I want to leave this world with a heart filled of loving memories not a casket full of money.

Chasing rubber balls to give your children all the material things they want is to satisfy your needs and desires not your childs, all they want is quality time with you.  Stop complicating your life and start living a simpler life filled with love and laughter.

So, if you did find yourself on your death bed tomorrow looking back at things you wished you had done differently you are not living you are just existing.

Life your live, enjoy the small things.  Look at your world as if you had just been born, with fresh eyes and start making a difference not only in your life but in these that you love by setting an example of what it is to really live and leaving that legacy for them rather than unfulfilled dreams and expectations.