Children's day

Every 2nd Friday and Saturday in January, Thais celebrate Children's Day. It's really interesting to see the parents giving gifts to their kids. At school, various governments offices donated presents to all the students.

I've read these finest words from Kahlil Gibran about child-raising.

Your children are not your children
They are the sons and daughters of Life's longing for itself.
They come through but not from you,
And thought 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.

Just so thankful for the wonderful parents God has given me. My brother and I have gone this far 'coz they just let the Archer bends with them. While living on this earth, we may also fly as high as we can to share God's ultimate blessing to us.