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Macksolo 2022/03/27 19:32:26
MackSolo Team Update: Day 5
It’s Mother’s Day 💐in the UK. So today, I step out of the shadow and speak as a mum… 👩‍🦰
How difficult is it for a mum to let her child spread their wings?🙋‍♀️Very…
When is the time ripe? Who knows…🤷‍♀️
Does a parent want to protect their child and keep it safe? 👼 Of course.

Safety is first, but the fact a child can spread its wings is equally important. How to find the balance? ⚖️

Letting go is not an exact science as every parent knows, it's alchemy ⚗️… and different for every child.

My guideline along the way has been Khalil Gibran’s poem about children:

“Your children are not your children.
They are the sons and daughters of Life’s longing for itself.
They come through you but not from you,
And though they are with you yet they belong not to you.
You may give them your love but not your thoughts,
For they have their own thoughts.
You may house their bodies but not their souls,
For their souls dwell in the house of tomorrow, which you cannot visit, not even in your dreams.
You may strive to be like them, but seek not to make them like you.
For life goes not backward nor tarries with yesterday.
You are the bows from which your children as living arrows are sent forth.
The archer sees the mark upon the path of the infinite, and He bends you with His might that His arrows may go swift and far.
Let your bending in the archer’s hand be for gladness;
For even as He loves the arrow that flies, so He loves also the bow that is stable.”

Damian Whitworth asked me how I coped with letting my children fly solo around the world, and this is what I had to say about it in the article below.https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/mack-rutherford-my-sister-flew-around-the-world-solo-at-19-can-i-do-it-at-only-16-skjwmjjz9

Mack Rutherford: My sister flew around the world solo at 19. Can I do it at only 16?

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