A Message for Both Estranged Mothers and Children

This was a very very difficult video for me to record. I have been facing my own feelings about this topic as my children and grandchildren get older and shape their lives. We are a very close family and there is strong communication. But I've personally realized how much i have projected my own desires and lifestyles into the relationships and saw a quote today that impacted me so strongly!!
It was a short exerpt from a book by Kahil Gibran. This video was my response. I just wanted to share. How do you feel about this conversation. PLEASE PLEASE be gentle with me and anyone who comments. This is one of the deepest conversations I think we can have together if you are a mother, or an estranged child.
Here is the quote I read in the video

Kahil Gibran - On Children
Your children are not your children.
They are the sons and daughters of Life's longing for itself.
They come through you but not from you,
And though they are with you, yet they belong not to you.
You may give them your love but not your thoughts,
For they have their own thoughts.
You may house their bodies but not their souls,
For their souls dwell in the house of tomorrow,
which you cannot visit, not even in your dreams.
You may strive to be like them,
but seek not to make them like you.
For life goes not backward nor tarries with yesterday.
You are the bows from which your children
as living arrows are sent forth.
The archer sees the mark upon the path of the infinite,
and He bends you with His might
that His arrows may go swift and far.
Let your bending in the archer's hand be for gladness;
For even as He loves the arrow that flies,
so He loves also the bow that is stable.

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