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A Letter to Mom & Dad Dear Mom and Dad, First of all, I am not talking back to you, I am talking to you, and I really want you to talk to me, not as a parent but as a human being. Your responsibility to me is not to assume the authority of a parent and to reward me when I am good and punish me when I am bad. Your responsibility is to live in truth so I can follow your example. You must feed me correctly by your habits. You and the rest of the ancestors have caused my addiction to junk food and I know that nobody truly understands nutrition, even though there are many professionally written books. And unfortunately, you are part of that mess because you have chosen a part of the mess. I hope before I grow up that you would have grown up also, and realize that all of us need this special healing. So, if we are the highest evolved organism on the face of the earth, be assured that we didn’t get there by eating junk food. We must find out which is the highest food and unless this is honored, we would miss out on life’s meaning and will limp to the end; and from what I see, the end is not pleasant. You followed the social structure and belief that I must be schooled and as a result, I lost out on thousands of days of sunshine, learning the things that I will forget. And as far as history is concerned, we ought to bury that part of our past with shame. But in the world, I learnt how to live my life from the youthful experience that was laid out for me by adults in my life. When I realized how detrimental this system was and that the experience was negative and my deeper questions remain unanswered, it was then that I understood that a young person’s mentality was never understood, and that I was being assaulted under the guise of preparing me for life. Right now, I live between the genetic burdens of hyperactivity and depression and I know that my mind is not mine. My stomach is always upset and bloated. I like junk food and I hate your vegetables probably because you are unaware of a better way, and the example you create do not have the incentive for me to pursue health. You still take drugs for your headaches, and father still medicates his tired and upset stomach; your parenting is very annoying and is separating us. No one is happy. A life of joy and good health is really our birthright, but we cannot find it your way. All your doctors and their diagnostic tools and the gigantic industry that formulates your treatments still do not understand my hyperactivity or my depression. They trick my hyperactivity by altering my mentality without removing the cause. And as far as my depression is concerned, I am trapped in an ocean of doom again. They altered my mentality and put a smile on my sad face again, the symptom is treated without removing the cause. Your idea of self-care comes from the medical perspective that is wrong and there seems to be no argument against it. The example that is set in this area does much damage, first by disregarding my instinctual wisdom and then convincing me that the doctor was an important part of my life. How can anyone be an expert about something so important and not know and not understand the basic need for the right food? This problem is begging to be solved because it would open the door to a better life for all of us. We have been lost and we’re rudderless; we break every law and fill the skies with begging prayers. We need to be reminded that that’s the birds’ space. Haven’t you heard that all prayers have been answered and all the ancestors within us --- we carry their predisposition to diseases, but let’s not forget, we also inherited their good points. As we get better, new self-confidence will replace doubt because for the highest organism on earth to have doubt is not in truth. It just simply proves that we are not the highest organism, but we are the highest organism potentially. When we have the good sense to get out of our own way, we will gradually realize our potential, and the magic is the gift of life that we rightfully crave, and it’s ours. Every young person I know has a deep love for their parents, but they all complain that they are kept away from enjoying that love because of this inept authority of parenthood and their questionable power to punish and reward. It is all that power that separate us rather than unite us. I longed to be in your arms, not as a good boy that has done what I have been told, but a younger brother, a creation of your love, and you can bet on it, we need your unrestricted love and you need mine. The only tools we have in dealing with each other is reason and love. So, let’s get together. I need your arms and you need mine. Enough time has been wasted trying to make the traditional ways work. The result has been hospitals, armies, school system, police forces and borders. The amount of experts that we require deepens our despair. So, we are not so smart after all, and the ways we dream up to have a good life have given us a bad life. The way we relate to each other --- in families and marriages and workplaces and the way we treat our children is all the proof that we need that we have chosen the wrong way. So, don’t hang on to the traditional ways and sacrifice this gift of love we have for each other. We have missed a lot and history shows that this has been going on for many generations. All my friends complain that the parental status has failed. We are all victims and held apart by this injurious authority. Please, before I grow up and your health fails, let’s find each other. With my deepest love,
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