Are you a stranger to yourself?
I remember one particular day a few years ago. I’d been struggling with a lot of emotions in my life at the time, and I guess I was “stressed.” As I looked in the mirror that morning, I wondered who I really was any more. I hadn’t thought about “me” for a long time.
This is a poem for children, but it gives a lot of food for thought. Discuss it with your children, and you’ll probably find it gives you a lot to consider also.
The title is: Robert, Who Is Often a Stranger to Himself.
Do you ever look in the looking glass
And see a stranger there?
A child you know and do not know,
Wearing what you wear?
Gwendolyn Brooks
In “Pocket Poems” selected by Bobbi Katz.
If anyone is close enough to come, I’ll be teaching a class on understanding our emotions on Tuesday, January 26th (in Wellsville, Utah). I am so passionate about learning to understand our emotions. That’s the only thing that makes us “real” to ourselves.
