Lost and Found

Monday I took my daughter to see the movie "Christopher Robin." It is an excellent movie, I recommend you see it. As I was watching the movie, I realized that this is a movie for adults.  Not because of content inappropriate for young eyes and ears, but because as busy, super focused adults we need the message Christopher Robin learns. I have spent the last couple of days thinking about how I might begin to remember for myself who I was as a child. I have been contemplating what does it really mean to play, not just the way I may play as an adult, but child like, innocent, creative play.  You know the kind that you can in no way take yourself too seriously to engage in. Well, I think I shall just stop the reflective questions right here, because I do not want to ruin the movie for you.  Instead I will leave you with the words of this poem inspired by the message I took from the movie.




Lost and Found
Somewhere along the way
I lost myself.

I let the busy of life,
the pressure to succeed,
the expectations of others
take over.

In doing so I forgot the important things:
     Play
     Silence
     Compassion
     Connection
     Being true to myself.

Memories of a self long forgotten
tapped me on the shoulder,
saying
Remember us?
Remember you?

And in the moment
my true self is once again
remembered.

I remembered the happiness
that is found in the
honoring of who you truly are.

And I stopped to
    Re-imagine myself
    Let go of that which is not me.

I took a deep breath
Stepped onto a new path
to begin to find myself again.

This time moving into the
life journey
more fully me
than I have ever been before.