The child within us and love
· There are children within us. The child has not grown up yet. The child still cries for attention within our hearts. The child is demanding, asking, conjuring and begging for love. The child, like any child, tries to get that love with tantrums, sometimes creating huge noise, sometimes even breaking things, including hurting us and breaking our hearts. The child wants us to see him or her, to see that child curled in, that child full of fear and hurt of rejection, the child that is behind the older face of a man or a woman, the child that pretends it needs no one and does not want or seek love, that hurting child that hopes and hopes to be understood and loved without playing games, without asking for so many things and without applying complex selfish rules and limitations. The problem is that child is also dealing with the child within you, the child within the lover, the other child that is also screaming and demanding, the other child that is fearful