A Bell

 Do you want to be like a school bell, at whose sound, all attention is sucked toward you? Or silent shyness, like a monk walking down a corridor, eyes down?  Whatever you are as a child, is your child ness.  What then is growing up?  Is it not to expand or contract from being a child?  To always be the same, what spiritual path is that?  Sameness means only that you are growing into a bigger child.  Sometimes growth is becoming smaller in an area of childhood, and sometimes becoming larger, but not the same smaller or the same larger. It is to change, to add something that was there in childhood, but not known or manifested or had yet the strength to be at all.  A spiritual path will reveal where you are stunted and where you have become fuller, the you, the best you.