angelic children

Hey friend, 

My mate keegs is living in mexico at the moment, and just had the birth of his 3rd child. 

Its brought up a lot in him, in all areas of life, or his relationship to life, and its been an honour to witness. 

We were chatting this week and he was talking about in centuries past how child were depicted as angles. He posed the question of why this was? And why it no longer was…

If we look at the way children, birth, childhood is treated today, you could say its far from its potential. 

My eldest sister (before starting her online biz and travelling the world) was studying midwifery and she’d agree that the common system of birthing is horrific, traumatic, soulless. Far from angelic depictions on the stained glass windows of the renaissance churches of Italy.

Children are the closest thing to our native state

Before we are conditioned. 

Before we take on the stress of our environment

Before we are moulded into something very different

Children are natural learning machines

They don’t require discipline to excel at what they love. 

They will spend hours & hours in timeless play. 

Children naturally master what they love. 

They naturally live lives of creation & authentic expression

Whether its playing for hours on end on the monkey bars in the backyard. 

Or dancing and singing. 

Or drawing. 

Building

Or whatever they have access to, to express & create.

Children naturally discover more & more of their authentic potential everyday through mindless play

No rules. No structure. No discipline. No keeping score. No competition. No comparison. No “hard work“

It is pure play. Outside of the mind. In that timeless place we all remember from childhood, where a whole day would go past and we were completely lost in the moment.

All until the parents, the school, society comes in and begins to tell them “how it ought to be done“

My goal with my own education is to discover more & more of my authentic potential everyday through mindless play.

This is our native state. 

One of the many reasons children deserve to be depicted as angels.

-Jay

PS. I lived with Keegs in Montenegro for a month in 2022. I filmed a conversation between us at one of his villages that he is building all around the world as a solution to many of our modern problems. You can watch it here.

Jay Topp is a 24 year old writer, marketer, film maker & self-led educator originally from Australia, now based between Latin America & Europe. You can see his films here. Instagram here. And his business website here.

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