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What a beautiful experience it is for us to look up into the night sky and view the stars, luminous wonders set high in space. We wear pendants, t-shirts, jewelry, and hair accessories patterned after the shape of stars. We study them, admire them and wish on them…What stars have to do with the lives and fate of troubled young women. What we know is that stars are formed from contracting clouds of interstellar gas and dust. However, did you know that astronomers have found that a typical star-making cloud appears to be racked by violence? Those brightly shining wonders are produced out of violent atmospheric interaction. Newly formed, as well as newly forming stars eject the large amounts of material from the cloud that gives them birth. During this process, there is a mass in space called a Prostar on its way to performing nuclear fusion. This is the action that makes a prostar into a star. What an interesting process it is how a prostar becomes a star. Gravity provides an “invisible hand”, squeezing the prostar to a smaller size and raising its central density causing nuclear fusion. |
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Nuclear fusion helps stars shine. The maintenance of star is like that of a positively changed child. Nuclear fusion happens at the center of stars and produces all energy that emerges from the star’s surface. One of those energies is Kinetic Energy, which is what makes a star shine. However, kinetic energy must come from a source and unless that source continuously replaces itself, the star will soon cease to shine. Astronomers call this process Energy Liberation. Lost??? Let me connect it for you… In order to change something you must first have knowledge of what it is you are changing, thus, a child must get to know herself. She must be shown that she is worthy of help and worthy of a positive life with positive choices. A young woman must confront all parts of herself and her life so that she can begin to know and love that self. By engaging in a show, watchful process under the “invisible hand” of a mentor, a young woman can take a look at her life experience. She can be shown that she does not have to be a product of her environment, thus sparking an interest in positive change. An interest in positive change opens the door for positive self-esteem. Once a child can begin to love herself, she can feel positive about all her parts. While building her self-esteem, she must maintain the desire to remain positive, she will spiral back into destructive behaviors. A return to destructive behavior will, in turn, begin the diminishing of her once positive self-esteem. So like a star, she must maintain her balance between self-esteem and the desire to change and remain positive. However, if taken seriously the process of building self-esteem allows one to be true to one’s self. Being true to her, will be the self-regulating characteristic that keeps her balanced. As a community, we can be the nuclear fusion a child needs to begin her transformation from a prostar into a star. It is that positive influence and support she receives from her surroundings that makes all of the difference. Likewise, if we are not on board as the positive piece in a child’s , she will inevitable spiral backwards into self-destructive behaviors. We should think of our children as stars, their community is the atmosphere in which they must dwell. That atmosphere consists of the people in this room. We hold all of the necessary actions needed to transform our children into outstanding adults, yet they are falling. Our children are falling into the “black holes” of life. They are feeling depressed and depreciated. Children make bad choices because bad choices are the most accessible to them, as are the people who introduce them to those choices. It is time that we step up to the plate and offer our children the nuclear fusion they so desperately need. Did you know that stars perform the astronomical alchemy that makes our existence possible? The word alchemy means the power or process of transforming something common into something special. Given the right tools and support, our children can carry the fate of the world and keep our existence possible. The fate of the world is in our hands. Stop looking into the sky and complaining about the lack of stars, you have the power to fill the sky. Let’s exercise together!
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