Lessons From A Humu
The boys have a book called ‘Humu, The Little Fish Who Wished Away His Colors’. Have you heard about it? It’s a Hawaiian book about a little boy fish who is bright and rainbow colored, but desperately wants to be ‘normal’ like his plain red and yellow fish friends.
Humu cries twice in the book. The first time is when he feels like his ‘normal’ friends are making fun of him for being rainbow. He runs away from his friends and finds a magic whale named Misty and asks to be turned into the color of sand. The whale makes him ‘normal’ with the option of changing back in three days, and Humu goes back to his friends to show them that he is like them. Except when he gets back to his friends, they don’t recognize him because he isn’t rainbow anymore. They convince him that he was beautiful just the way he was and this is the second time Humu starts crying in the book.
Now Humu realizes that he wants to ‘be himself’ and wishes he was rainbow again. With the support of his ‘normal’ friends, Humu goes back to where he met Misty and asks to be rainbow again. All of the sudden there’s a rainbow cloud floating around and Humu swims into it and is rainbow again. He is Humu again, his friends support him, and the world is right.
With a little help from this book my boys will be Humu someday too.
What is ‘normal’ anyway? Who determines the criteria for ‘normal’? As Christians we go through this type of criteria on a daily basis in the ‘normal’ world. We are judged. Hopefully, we, as parents, can instill in our children the sense of being comfortable in their own skin. Sometimes others will try to define ‘normal’, but standing strong in our beliefs will be our norm.
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Is it because we grew up close to SF?
I hope Randy was trying to be funny…..ROFL
oh my gosh. i have that book. my grandma got it for me in Hawai’i