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After talking to a friend yesterday, the mom of a 7-year old girl, I couldn’t feel other thing but huge respect and admiration, and to certain extent jealousy of her joy at describing how fulfilling and beautiful has been for her to be a mom. It is a huge responsibility, it is hard work, but only a mother/father can describe the immense joy that seeing a child growing means.

I wouldn’t make justice by comparing the responsibility to being true to oneself as it is the responsibility of raising a child. However, in a way, I think it is a beautiful analogy: the responsibility to listen, nurture and develop your true self with giving birth, nurture and help develop a human being. If you have read a previous post about Life Coaching, you will know who Petula is. She suggested the idea of thinking of major changes in life as a baby…I don’t know how this baby is going to look like or will be doing in some years from now, but at the moment she needs attention, it is my responsibility. My heart was telling me to let her come to my life, and I let her. In a figurative way I didn’t plan this baby, but I knew clearly that I wanted to keep her, having the baby felt in alignment with myself and now is my responsibility to raise a healthy, strong, confident, and most of all joyous person.  She doesn’t have to be a prominent figure, maybe she will, who knows, for now, I just know that I need to take care of her every day. I still have to discover what her preferences are, she is hungry everyday; today she wanted to be fed with words, and that’s what I gave her. I accept this responsibility with joy and optimism, I won’t let you down, I won’t let you go; the universe, your friends, and I will be with you to help you expand through horizons and to wherever you were born to go.

With admiration to those brave people who make the commitment to live in alignment with their true self through life, even when that means making the difficult decision of not bringing some babies to life.