A child is always hungry. cries out for milk, maybe for cerelac and his mother’s breasts. Crumbles for water when he’s thirsty, screams when he’s tummy boils. He is like the heart – cries when it is lonely, bleeds when it is thirsty for love. It screams when it needs another heart to feed it. Feed it with joy, hope and courage. These three adjectives are like water, cerelac and the mother’s breasts where the heart seeks for only one satisfaction.

The child is satisfied when he is filled with food. The heart is satisfied when it is filled with just love.
A child is inconstant in behavior. in a certain time span he smiles, cries, laughs out loud, screams, giggles, silences, envies, plays, frowns, asks. he do these verbs to just be simply satisfied. these verbs are also felt by the heart. it is also inconstant in behavior, especially when it knows how to determine if another close heart is doing the same thing. Like a child, it does not do anything if another child is not doing anything. He just silences. The heart also silences.

A child always tries hard to do things he can’t. He reaches for something he can’t reach, understands talk of the elders, completes a puzzle that’s big enough for him to solve, eats anything even if it is not food. The heart tries even harder to do things. It reaches the other heart even if it’s unreachable, desires to understand even if it would cause it to bleed much, caters so that it would complete a very fine feeling, tries to solve the aches it is undergoing, loves even if it is not loved.

A child seeks for happiness. Everyone seeks for it though. But when a child seeks for happiness, the mother has to give it. The mother must not surrender, because he will cry and cry, and no one would be able to stop him from crying. A heart seeks for happiness too, and its happiness is love from another heart. It would remain lonely if it’s not contended with the love given by the other heart. It would seek for contentment until it finds the other heart’s happiness-giving. Nothing can stop the heart from seeking happiness, but just the one heart that can give it.

A child always seeks for truth, asks why and how every time he sees something unusual or new to his sight and insights, “why is the sky blue?”; “how is a baby created?”; “why do we eat?”; “how did you become my mom?”; these are common questions of a child if he is seeking for true answers. He knows the truth if a reliable source would answer his questions. And stops asking if he has trust with the person he asks from. The heart seeks for truth too. it also asks. “why am i bleeding so bad?”; “how come you let me love you?”; it is the nature of the heart to seek for reality and ponder on the truth. if it is contended with the answer, it loves more – like the child that trusts.

A child is dependent. When he is alone, he looks for someone to be with. If he hungers, someone must feed him. If he pees at night, someone must change his diapers. If he does something good, someone must praise him. If he stumbles, someone must lift him up. A heart is dependent, if another heart leaves, it aches, if it is alone, another heart must embrace it. If it is bleeding, another heart must cure it.

A child needs guidance primarily from his parents. A heart needs guidance of the mind. The child thinks on his own, but the parents need to supervise them, if not, needs to decide for him with everything. The heart feels on its own. but the mind needs to command on it.

A child always thinks that he is the “king of the world”. Everyone must spoil him. The heart is the same, the owner must spoil it, because if the owner would not spoil it, love would never rule.
A child is careless, though he does not know in himself, he cares a lot. A heart is careless, though it does not know in itself, it loves a lot.