The Stairway to heaven - the meaning

What is hidden behind the words and drawings of my first book for children.

Death

Death is an intrigating and fascinating mystery. It is a paradox that challenges us to understand and accept it throughout life, as we experience it countless times, even without actually realizing it. One of those deaths is that of the ego, a part of us which we believe defines us completely and resists change, clinging to that part that keeps us stuck and limited. Personally, I think that the death of the ego is one of the most silent and devastating, but also the most liberating.

The death of the ego can be a painful and confusing process, but it can also be a source of inspiration and creativity. That’s how it was for me when I decided to write a book for children based on the feelings that I experienced during this process. In this post, I want to share with you how I built the story and what it means to me.

My meaning

The book is titled “The Stairway to Heaven” and tells the adventure of a child who decides to build a stairway to go to heaven and see his mother. The child represents that part of me that began to question who I really was and the fragility of my being during the process of grief. The child cries and feels sad for the absence of his mother, which reflects my state during the time my ego started to die, a painful situation because it was hard to let go of everything.

The stairway the little boy builds to go to heaven symbolizes my will to get out of that state of depression and confusion. The mother of the boy in heaven is the love in my interior that seeks to guide me and teach me to accept myself, to let go, to live, to be happy, to be authentic.

Finally, descending the stairs is the way I choose to show the completion of the grief and my liberation, because going down is lighter, just as it feels to detach from what you had to let go of. Perhaps everything can be repeated because nothing is linear and dynamism is also part of life. However, there will be previous experiences to help us handle it better and even if we fall again, there is our loving inner true self as our guide. The child who looks at the stars from time to time represents that, because whenever he misses his mother he knows she is with him in the moon, in the stars, in the night sky, in his heart.

As you may already know...

Blue is a color associated with sadness, melancholy and nostalgia, but also represents calmness, serenity and hope. I chose blue and its derivative shades as the color palette of my book to reflect the sorrow and the pain during grief. I wanted to convey that death is not an end, but a beginning. Letting my ego die was the beginning of a new stage of personal and spiritual growth that allowed me to live the present while being authentic.

I hope you liked this post and that it aroused your curiosity to read my book. Many thanks for your attention and your good wishes. Remember that this was the meaning that I gave to my book, but it can have infinite interpretations and I would really appreciate being able to know yours, so feel free to write them in the comments.

See you soon!