Monday, April 14, 2008

Children, Our World's Future


Today, i find an inspiration by browsing child's picture. I always interesting about anything that related to family and children. Why? Because i think that a good and successful family will determine our future. When i browse into the picture of the children, i realize how precious they are for us. If we look them in business sight, they are the greatest asset ever among other asset. Not only that, we can also learn from them, because sometimes, they have several character that we, adult have lost it in the past years from the day we were born.

Many business guru said that, human is an asset. That was true. More important asset is a child. A child is just like a clear and white paper, which we can write down or draw anything to form their character. If we teach all good things to the children since they were still young, we can expect a great result when they getting mature. On the contrary, if we teach all bad things, we also can expect that they will become 'bad guys' in the future.

We also can learn many things from the children. Sometimes, we are too proud to announce ourself 'knows everything' than the children. In fact, there are several characters and morals that we also must learn again from the children (since we forgot the basic things when we started to grow up)

1. A child is an opened minded. We can teach everything to them... that's why we called them innocent. As you know, children absorb information better than the adult because of their open minded character like this. If we learn something new, we should be open minded, but if we want to test something, we should use our principal to test it, not on the contrary. Let's learn this open minded character from them.

2. They always have total dependency. Total dependency, because they know they're weak and can't do nothing without their parents. We also should know, that we.. a human, need our GOD in everything we do. Yes... since we are a creation, not a Creator, why don't you ask your Creator if you confused in your life? Our power, intelligence and our capacity has a limit. Religious people often say to pray whenever you have a trouble, just like a children that cry for help from their parents. Even we have everything (success, achievement, etc), or whenever we are in the middle of the failing moment, just remember to be religious whatever your religion is. A good quality faith will determine a good quality life.

3. Active, enthusiasm. When i was a teacher in the past 2 years, i remember that i enjoy to teach children in some class that known as 'rebel, bandit, naughty, etc'. Actually, they need an activity, not only sitting and hear their teacher tell some story. They need games, they want to play, and in many ways, i have found some effectiveness to teach in games. They are very enthusiast, and want to know more. To learn something, sometimes, we need 'a games'. I am sure, they ... who expert in blogging or in business, think that it such a game for them, and they were curious to improve it, because it challenging. A challenge, games, enthusiasm.... We still need these keywords to improve whatever our work is.

4. They are honest. A child is the one that can't never to lie, both to the others and to themselves. Think about it, sometimes we made a lie even to ourself. Yeah.. just like example, it's hard to be honest to express your love to someone that you love them, therefore you said what you don't want to say and makes it complicated. Now, take a look at a child. Whenever they feel happy, they just laugh. Whenever they sad, they just crying. And whenever they want to express 'i love you' to their parents, they just said it. A good example for us to follow. They make everything simpler because of their honesty. We should observe their honesty, and start to learn it from them.

5. The last, but not least, they are pure. I am sure that there's no children that have a bad intention in their heart. They are always have a pure heart, good intention an also want to do a good things for others. This should be the difficult example for us, because, we as an adult always have a various intention to do something. If the children wants to do something, it because that it's fun and they love to do it. Basically, it's fun to do something that we enjoy. The children always do it with clear intention and not mixed with anything. In adult world, we called it "Integrity"

Now, it's clear enough why children are the best asset ever created in this world. They are our future and our hope. I am really sad if there are parents that don't know how valuable their child is. Divorce, sexual harassment, even abortion, these actions were basically actions that destroy children and actually it also destroy our own future. For parents, you should be grateful of your child or your baby presence. They are your best gift ever, so keep it and grow your children well. Our future depends on them, and let's make a good future together by doing a simple action: Grow our children well and give them love so that they will be a honorable mankind in the future.

3 comments:

Susan said...

I quite agree with you, except of the religion thing. It is like when I was at church on a wedding and that woman said: love Jesus and you will love each other. It is pure nonsense. You can have a good life even if you do not believe in any god. I could say, that I was very unhappy until I believed in a god. Now I'm more happy and my life is better.
But maybe some people need to feel dependency, but not everybody.

Sigit said...

Well, it's up to everybody then how to define about the word dependency. I have this thing out from the child attitude about how they can not separate from their parents. Everybody needs 'something' higher than them to depends on. If they depends on themself, ... well... it's up to them then..

Any way, thank you for your input. May you live a happy life with your family...

Dorothy L said...

Nice thoughts!
Children are the windows to our future.
Through then we see what lies ahead and exactly what we have failed to do or succeeded to do in making it a better world for them.
Children are born with every positive aspect until they begin to be tainted by the reality of life.
That is why they are so lovable. They are genuine and react without judgment.
We were all children at one time and when we look back to seek out the whys of who we are today, it can be quite a revealing journey!
Keep moving forward!
DorothyL