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ícone The terrible vixen
 

It is still all very common for desperation to reach families when the shadow of death surrounds home and takes one of our loved ones.

Parents lose their mind, as if the ground had been removed and they did not have a place to walk on.

My son was the reason for my life! I cannot live without him! - They say amid revolt and anguish.

Mothers insist on leaving the bedroom, the office, and all her beloved one's belongings exactly where they were when the departure to another life happened as if she had hopes that the son would return at any moment and continue using all the objects he had been using up until then.

Spouses that are hurt by the absence of their partners shed endless tears and sometimes ask questions like: Why did you do this to me? Why did you leave me?

These and other similar attitudes are related to the way we were educated and consequently the way we educated our kids.

Well, the only certainty in this world is that when one is born, one will sooner or later die.

Paradoxically, this is usually what we least worry about. We do not talk about death,  we do not explain to our children about death.

When a loved pet dies, we rush to get another one, just like the old one, to prevent our children from feeling its loss.

It would be better to allow our children to experience the feeling of losing someone we love.

The child may cry, but will understand that all living beings will die one day. And inside, with the parents' help, the child will be able to manage the loss.

This is an exercise that will serve the child in the future because they will live in this world knowing that physical life is not eternal.

This way, when they lose someone they love, they will suffer the loss and will cry because of the pain, but they will not let themselves be absorbed by mental chaos because they will know that this is the normal life cycle.

In a commercial that values the correct education process there is a child looking at a little fish in an aquarium.

The fish is still, its belly upside. The child's small hand knocks the aquarium in an attempt to wake up the fish.

The mother gets closer and now the scene switches to the images she is describing: the little fish opens its eyes, notices flying fishes among the clouds.

The fish flies a short way on the back of another fish. It arrives at a place appearing to be paradise.

Then it meets a female fish of the same species.

They touch fins and enter the great happiness portal together.

The scene goes back to mother and child. The little one's eyes shine, he smiles and says:

How nice Mom! So this is what happened?

And a big hug ends the dialog.

This is a way to demystify death as the terrible and insatiable vixen that separates loved ones and take them to unknown places.

Let us think about this and start creating mental images about death that are different from these dark images that we have always thought about.

Let us go beyond and start teaching our children about the natural phenomenon of death and about immortal life.

Spiritist Moment Team.
August 31.2009.

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