So, one of my middle Aspie son's teacher relayed an amuzing story to me today.
It seems that the 5th graders are having trouble staying in line...so she had them following the "shadow line" that was created by the awning over the walkway. She soon realized that my son had followed the shadow, alright....the shadow made by the support pole of the awning rather than the awning itself and was walking away from the class.
It calls to mind the Robert Frost poem where he states,
"Two paths diverged in the woods and I,
I chose the one less traveled by,
and that has made all the difference."
All of our children have moments where they could choose the path of least resistance or "the path less traveled by." Who's to say that the BEST way is ALWAYS the path of least resistance? I know that my Aspie sons often choose the "one less traveled by" and that DOES make all the difference between the mundane and the inspired....
If only society could see that neither the destination nor the path's themselves are the most important part of the story...but rather the travler and how their lives change along the journey.
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