What is the most important value you can pass onto your child?
Now that my daughter is getting to an age where she can be taught values, I suppose this is a pressing question. (Cellena has just entered her third year) I thought at first perhaps my sense of devotion to the Republic but that is not necessarily something that would benefit a woman in our society. Maybe honor or loyalty to family but if anything my father has taught me that the family is not always worthy of such feelings from its children. Not that I am implying that I would ever do something as vile as he has done.
After spending hours reflecting I have come up with many things that would be of merit to pass on to a son but a daughter, I am not sure. The demands placed upon a woman in our society are in many ways very different then those placed upon males. I find I have nothing that I would give her but would look to Adira for the one thing that I would wish my daughter to gain.
My daughter would benefit most from learning Adira’s outlook on the world. The ability to put aside grudges and stereotypes to make friends where they should not be, turn likely enemies to staunch allies; the Narns and Mariel are fine examples of this. She sees the aesthetic qualities in everything and allows even simple beauty to bring her joy. Adira can look at any adversity and see it as nothing more then a problem to be solved and I think sometimes she even finds pleasure in the challenge it presents. Her religious devotion as impractical as it may seem to me gives her the ability to still be in awe of many things that I am cynical about. She still sees much of life through the eyes of a child, inspired and in wonder despite all she has been through. These qualities are what I would wish for my daughter to gain as a woman.
Crossposted to theatrical_muse
After spending hours reflecting I have come up with many things that would be of merit to pass on to a son but a daughter, I am not sure. The demands placed upon a woman in our society are in many ways very different then those placed upon males. I find I have nothing that I would give her but would look to Adira for the one thing that I would wish my daughter to gain.
My daughter would benefit most from learning Adira’s outlook on the world. The ability to put aside grudges and stereotypes to make friends where they should not be, turn likely enemies to staunch allies; the Narns and Mariel are fine examples of this. She sees the aesthetic qualities in everything and allows even simple beauty to bring her joy. Adira can look at any adversity and see it as nothing more then a problem to be solved and I think sometimes she even finds pleasure in the challenge it presents. Her religious devotion as impractical as it may seem to me gives her the ability to still be in awe of many things that I am cynical about. She still sees much of life through the eyes of a child, inspired and in wonder despite all she has been through. These qualities are what I would wish for my daughter to gain as a woman.
Crossposted to theatrical_muse