Your child is not yours.

Author: Kahlil Gibran

Your child is not your child.

They are children born of life's desire for themselves.

They came to this world through you, but not because of you.

They're right next to you. They really don't belong to you.

What you can give them is your love, not your thoughts.

Because they have their own ideas.

What you can protect is their bodies.

But not their souls.

Because their souls belong to tomorrow.

It belongs to a tomorrow you never dreamed of.

You can do your best.

Become like them.

But don't let them become like you.

Because life does not go backwards.

Or stay in the past.

You are a bow, and your children are the arrows you shoot.

The shooter looks at the target on the way to the future.

He tried his best to pull you away, so that his arrow could shoot fast and far.

In a happy mood.

Bend in the hands of archers.

Because he loves arrows flying all the way.

I also love the extremely stable bow.

Kahlil Gibran (1883 65438+1October 6-1April/2003 10), a Lebanese writer, poet and painter, was the main founder of Arabic literature and one of the pioneers of the new road of Arabic literature in the 20th century. He is known as an artistic genius and the darling of Lebanese literature.