I Love How Children Own Their Farts

No wonder life is so much easier for them

Farts do come with a social obligation but you can’t deny their in-built satisfaction.

— Bhavna Narula

You do realize that farts here represent the silly mistakes we commit in life. Instead of owning our mistakes, we either negate them or put the blame on someone else.

Because we are fully-functioning adults.

We have self-esteem needs and that kind of gets diminished if we find ourselves attached to a mistake, especially a silly one.

Remember as kids, when some fellow classmate farted, everyone including us would have a hearty laugh, not thinking about the person in question.

But God forbid, if our stomach decided to throw us under the bus and buzzed the natural french horn from our backyards, we would hate the same sound of laughter we had cherished earlier.

But nowadays, children are designed to own their farts.

They don’t shy away to accept it was them who farted and also laugh along with you. This according to me is such an important life skill where the child knows that farting is a subject of instant laughter, yet they accept it came from them.

They share the laughter with others and that’s where they emerge as a true winner.

I recently made a silly mistake at work and shared it with a co-worker who in turn shared it with another co-worker. Thankfully, both of them are my friends but I felt extremely embarrassed about my mistake.

Now when I think about it, I could have owned it and just moved away with the lesson it offered. Instead of sitting and ruminating on the thought of committing a silly mistake.

So, tell me. Are there any recent farts you felt that you could have owned better and did it offer any life learning you would like to share?

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