Flustered Axons

Over the last few years, I did a post of Khalil Gibran’s excerpt from the “On Children – Chapter IV” piece. My previous post about this can be read here.

I was browsing through my old pieces and found a post on me literally whaking Gibran on the head with a load of enthusiasm about having God as the center of upbringing. I completely misunderstood the meaning of the piece.

Here I would like to forward my apology to anyone whom may have been offended by my words in contradicting Gibran and my disrespectful use of incoherent meaning towards the publishing of this piece.

As I read further, I realised that the peice was directed at parents in leaving their children be, and hence, letting go of what was to be the “growing-up” of a child. In essence, leaving the being of a child to grow in spiritual wealth while the parents would have to watch upon the free will of spiritual choice-making and the physically dependent body.

This is only, as I said, an excerpt of a bigger picture of scripture by Gibran. I would recommend further reading into his works before searching through the factual meaning of his pieces. Most of them refer only to the most direct and spontaneous meanings of life in its self.

Again, with deep and sincere feelings of apology,
S.O.