Fear or love

Is it a choice?

Playground sign full of fear

Fear or love. When faced with that choice, probably everyone chooses the latter because who wants to live in fear? No right-minded person, it seems to me. 

Reading a sign at a playground in the Spanish town of Valencia de Alcántara, which is less than 20 kilometres from our home in Portugal, I read only fear. By the powers that be, we are actually made afraid of everything, even the dangers in a playground. That would require a sign like this, which I don't think anyone reads at all. 

Because imagine:

I arrive with my child to play in the playground. Then we will first spend half an hour reading what my child is or is not allowed to do, because every toy is bound to a certain age apparently.  

How does such a thing work? 

How did I do it when there were no rubber tiles in playgrounds?

Parents/guardians can't think for themselves anymore? Or are they looking at their screens. 

What is wrong with humanity? 

What about common sense?

Of course, those kinds of warnings are not only posted at playgrounds in Spain. Probably all over Europe. Maybe those signs are put up with European subsidies because Europe wants all children to play safely. I don't know. What I do know is that fear is being pumped into people from all sides in order to reduce self-reliance to zero. Only then will you have obedient people, doing exactly what the government demands of them. 

And then something happened

On the same day - something that made me cheerful. Something that confirmed that there are still people and children whose lights are on and whose screens are off. Children who in all simplicity grow up in a natural environment, in a natural school and spend most of their time outside. Without playgrounds. Just in nature. 

I am posting a video here of two little kids going to school at Planeta Alecrim. They sing a song while picking hazelnuts.

The lyrics (translated): 

Every little cell of my body is doing well.

I am doing well.

Everything is well. 

Then I thought that if all people could be as content with themselves and their lives as these two children, for just one day, there would be no room for fear and that instant would transform the whole world. 

Just imagine!