Children Full Of Life

Recently, popular blogger Chris Cade posted a video about and titled "Children Full of Life"* on his facebook, which I also shared with friends and family, by ‘random chance’, I decided to watch it.  It really touched me very deeply. I actually cried (this has happened more often over the last few months, than it has my entire life combined after the age of 2.  I consider it a wonderful thing!)

This video is an award-winning documentary about a Japanese homeroom teacher Toshiro Kanamori who, through guiding children to read aloud their inner-feelings about their personal life and how they see other classmates in a letter, helps allow the children to share their lives and realize the importance of caring for each other. 

Only after re-connecting with a friend from Niagara that I was so fortunate to chat with online (rare for me to do), did I realize that this simple sharing of a touching video gave deep impact to others as well, and also gave me much insight as well. 

The conversation went something like this:

Arthur: [Toshiro Kanamori]’s so amazing isn’t he?

Friend: yeah

Arthur: I feel that I also do what he does with individuals, and one day, I can see myself doing something similar with groups as well.

Friend: I can tell you are that type of person, loves kids and have a great heart for them.  I don’t know, I was crying when I watched [Children of Life]

Arthur: Actually, I cried too

It touched me very deeply, and gave me deep (feeling of) strength. I saw in that teacher something in myself that wanted to provide much value to others, on a more massive scale than I currently am offering the world.

Her: I am sure you will do great things for the world

Arthur: With conversations like these, and thank you so much, I am sure I will

…and what makes you think I’m not doing it right now?

A person can only do great things from where he/she is at the current moment. 

Her:  I am sure you are doing it right now, but maybe sometimes you think that’s not enough and you want to do more great things.

Arthur: No, I always feel I am doing "enough", because I am always giving my all

As I often enjoy doing, I took this chatting opportunity to enthusiastically and passionately share about what I am, what I want to become and encourage others to get to know me better by sharing my vision with them.  This awesome, mutually inspiring chat wouldn’t have taken place without me planting the seed, by simply sharing a link.

Sharing something simple, which took me less than 2 seconds and was fun to watch and share anyways, applies to other aspects.  Sharing with others for example, a bus token, which helps a struggling person in a bus stop near my home a long way.  He wanted someone to listen to him, and he also needed a bus token.  He got that, and I also gave him a SpiritSentient business card.  It’s funny, but if you think about it, a person sort of struggling in life doesn’t really get that much respect.  So when someone goes out of their way to give them respect, a willing ear, and a not-necessary-but-helping hand, it can go along way.  I encouraged this gentlemen to not give up on himself, that good things were coming to him, and in an indirect way, to be grateful and to appreciate everything life offers him.  No matter what position in life you are in (and it’s very easy to say this in the comfort behind my computer, sipping a hot chocolate waiting for my dinner to be made for me) to be very receptive to what others, what life can offer you, it simply brings more goodness into your life by your openness and expanded ability to take as well as give.

Life is a leap of faith, from the known to the unknown, whether we like it or not.  I use each and every opportunity that is available to me at each and every moment to the very peak, to the supreme, and receive from life as much as possible.

SpiritSentient teaches art… spirituality is another name for it. The spirituality here is more about taste than one of strict religion. It’s much more like art, poetry, painting, dancing and the joy of music than it is traditional religion such as Christianity or Islam.  And art is subjective, the object of an artist’s art represents his vision, his ideal of what life should be – beyond beautiful, beyond his own ability to conceive, his unbidden song. 

So be more available, open, loving.  Be more spontaneous, do what feels right, and give more to life and the people around you today, because… why not?

*Children Full of Life: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=armP8TfS9Is

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