Building a Lifetime of Love and Memories While Fueling Dreams With Legos
The simple gift of our time can make the biggest impact
My son burst onto this earth armed with a singular dream.
To be an engineer!
Before he could speak he was busy building things.
Bits and pieces around the home became the building blocks that fueled his developing imagination.
As soon as he mastered language, he announced his intention to become an engineer.
We did not influence that decision in any way shape or form.
The dream remains all his own.
Before kindergarten, we began buying legos for him and he would build them.
At first, he and I would go through the painstaking process.
His tiny new eyes would hone in on the minute pieces and he knew perfectly what piece would fit where.
We spent many a dollar and we built many things for which I am proud.
We still have a few pieces put away for posterity.
When he graduated kinder, his initial dream was not deferred.
I have always loved puzzles, both crossword and jigsaw.
Back in simpler times, I took great pleasure in purchasing the 3,000 pieces and would spend hours putting them together.
I was happy my son seemed to have inherited my love of “building”.
While I loved the idea of us working together making lego structures, what I appreciated most of all were the memories and the bond we were creating together.
Someday when my son is working as a robotic engineer (that is what he decided he will do), I imagine him stretching those tired muscles with his hands over his head and thinking about how his mother sat on the floor with him and built lego dreams.
I hope he is warmed by the memories and realization of the love we shared and those memories will warm and comfort him long after I have physically left the scene.
These days he is 9 years old and robotics is everything to him.
Our home is teeming with robots he has built.
The other day I laughingly told him if he built another robot, he would have to live in the garage, as we were running out of room 🤣. Plus it’s a bit creepy to always have those robot eyes staring at us.
Yet he keeps building more.
Final thoughts
We can learn a lot from the single-minded tenacity of children.
My son is now 9 years old and instead of letting go of his dream, he is ever more consumed by it.
Our home remains littered with robots, we watch robots on TV, he reads about all things robots.
We live with robots.
I am grateful to my son for reminding me of the value of a dream coupled with determination.
I am inspired by his focus and devotion, he is constantly revamping his designs as he gets greater insight.
He is determined to be an engineer and not just any engineer, he definitively said, a robotics engineer.
With his single-minded focus, drive, and determination, I have no doubt he will achieve his dream.
Thank you for Roo Benjamin's, he inspired this story, read his story below.
Thank you all for reading.
Pene Hodge is a mom, a nurse, a writer. She writes because she must. She loves people and is committed to sharing and gleaning knowledge for the betterment of all.
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