Walking back from the pool while on vacation last month, JJ was a few steps ahead of me.
“Look mom, I’m a superhero!” He proudly exclaimed.
I watched him drape his
towel over his head and pull it taught with both hands creating a cape. Something he’d done many times before. Today though, the sun happened to be at an
angle that cast a shadow out in front of him.
As we walked, the shadow made it look like he was in fact a real super
hero flying with his cape. Delighted, he
began to run/fly and the five minute walk back to the house became an adventure
of epic proportions.
My first instinct was
to yell at him to stop running. Visions
of skinned knees ran thru my mind, but I stopped myself. Instead, I allowed this simple moment of
pleasure to envelop me along with my almost six year old. It was pure bliss. What a gift, that such a little thing was
giving my son so much joy and how incredible was it that as his mother who
adores him, I was able to experience it as well?
A few minutes later we
were back at the house and he was soon immersed in a variety of race cars, transformers
and action figures, but for just a little while, life was as simple as a boy, a
towel and his imagination. It made me
really think about not needing much to make life as adventurous as our minds
will allow.
Ah, the wisdom of youth and the magic it holds for us all.
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