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For them, home is the world. For them, every human being is just one member of that large human family you have. ... if we have more children like mine, in my view, we will not have war.
So it seems to be my responsibility, particularly to my children, also to my wife and friends, is not to be Pollyanna and pretend everything's okay no one would take me seriously if I said that but it's to be as present in their lives now as I can be so that in years to come, they don't feel either guilty or bad at my having been left out of their lives, that they feel still a very strong not a memory of particular actions but a memory of a complete family rather than a broken one. That seems to be something I can do or try to do.
Ever since they were born, Vic and I have been clear: happiness and confidence are the two things we want most for our children and the rest can all fall into place.
Exactly what my parents left me: the knowledge of the difference between good and bad and right and wrong. Everything else is entirely up to them.
A sense of the world being full of possibility and it being in their hands to make it a better one.
Spirit of adventure and kindness.
Happy memories.
The best possible understanding of who they are and where they came from.
A book of passwords for all the electrical stuff in the house.
A sense of what’s right, a few quid and some nice paintings.
Good values and a lot of money.
That they were loved.
A deep sense that they will be fine in the world without me.
The wisdom to become who they are in the truth of their spirit.