wordfalls and scatters

It must be hard, sometimes, having your Littles grow up into Slightly-Less-Littles, and run off into the world and do Unwise Things, and have Adventures. I do far fewer Unwise Things than I used to, which I imagine is something of a relief for my parents (and the many other family-types that care for me). But I'm still finding my way in the world, and trying to work out how to do friendships and relationships and work-stuff, and I imagine it is hard to watch sometimes. I am still so unsettled, and I know that sometimes people fret that I might not work out life in a way that makes me happy and safe.

Sometimes I want to scoop up the people that I love and fix everything for them. I want to make them cocoa and shut out the scary parts of the world and the things that make them cry. I know that there are a lot of people who feel the same way about me. And I know that sometimes I make them sigh, and fret, and they don't understand why I do the things I do.


I'm getting better, though. I feel like I'm learning, and I'm mostly pretty happy, and I'm better at working out what makes me unhappy and fixing it.