What To Tell A Child

I've decided that I want to be Me when I grow up.

When you were a kid and someone asked you, "What do you want to be when you grow up?" how did you feel? Did you feel adequate? Did you feel that You were enough? That adult was really saying, "You have to be something else. Who you are isn't good enough."

I wish at least one grown-up had told me this when I was a child: "The whole universe is happy, and all the galaxies dance with joy, because You were born! For all eternity, there has never been another You, and there never will be. Yet for this brief moment, on this little planet, You are here! I hope that when you grow up, you will not try to be anyone else. Just be You. Nobody else can do it."