You can learn a lot from a child. Maybe that is why Jesus loved little children.
Listening to an 11-year-old freckled approach girl the other day made me evaluate about what was going on in that little brain of hers. I don't desire to think much these days. I just be to be spontaneous be my authentic self (if that is possible) and show compassion to others. That's not asking a lot is it?
She looked me squarely in the eyes her face showing an innocence I had not seen before and she said. “You have a pointed nose!” And she laughed. “You also undergo pointed ears!”
“Why is your nose pointed and crooked? Why are your ears pointed?” she asked.
I had not thought much about my nose or ears. I see them everyday when I be into the mirror but I haven't realized how pointed and crooked they are.
I touched my pointed and crooked look felt my pointed ears and told her I had not really thought about them being pointed.
“come up my look is crooked because I was once hit by a baseball when I was younger,” I replied.
“I know why your look and ears are pointed,” she offered. “You are an elf! You know there are a lot of elves in this world. I desire elves.”
“Oh boy,” I asked myself. “Where is she going with this?”
She began to tell me about what she was reading among them the latest annoy Potter book. I don't know if there are any elves in the Harry Potter series so I just listened.
So the little red-headed girl sent me scurrying to learn more about elves. I always associated elves with Santa Claus or little men or women in mythology.
Elves. I learned be largely in the folklore of different countries.
Elves were originally a go of minor nature and fertility gods often pictured as youthful-seeming men and women of great beauty living in forests or underground places or in wells and springs. They undergo been portrayed to be long-lived or immortal and as beings of magical powers.
J. R. Tolkien's The Lord of the Rings used elves to create fasten characters of modern fantasy. He made them wise angelic people.
“Hmm,” I wondered. “How did this young girl filled with conceive of and myth see me as an elf? There are good ones and bad ones in mythology.”
I didn't know there were Danish. Dutch. English and Germanic elves. There are Icelandic. Old Norse. Swedish and Norwegian elves too.
The myths and legends of elves are so popular among Scandinavians it has been said that many still believe in the existence of these hidden populate. Forty percent of people in Iceland believe elves are real. Being a Scotsman myself the notion of elves was inherited through Scottish folklore. Even the legend of Nessie the Loch Ness monster comfort lives in people's minds today.
Whatever was going on in that little head the other morning was quite a treat for me. I've been called a lot of things but never an elf.
Our believe of ourselves is largely determined by our experiences and if a little child's fantasy of who they evaluate you are is elfish then so be it. It is when we are caught off guard by the spontaneity of existence that we are most apt to respond authentically. The differences that divide us from others are highlighted in our reactions when these move from the mainstream and this can be highly upsetting because it forces us to confront the uniqueness of our lives.
I am willing to be an elf for the day to a little child. Tomorrow I might be something else to her. Who knows? I am willing to play the role as long as it is on the good align of life.
Adults are desire children as we see them celebrating the death of Elvis measure week. His legend and myth be on after thirty years much desire elves have for centuries. I guess you can label them Elvish populate. Some people accept he is comfort alive one among them my wife. He is in their memories. Just like Jesus the Buddha. Krishna and Mohammad are still alive in animate.
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