Today a friend of mine became a father. His wife gave birth to a healthy little son. Getting married is one thing - one thing difficult to fathom on its own - but becoming a father I find really, really hard to comprehend. It's like a ridiculously high number, like a hundred million bucks. A what? Exactly.
We were all children once. Infants. That's actually the less scary part, I think. A baby is just there, sleepless and hungry all the time, but a kid, the ability to walk and disappear, seems really scary. And then he becomes a teenager. Questions turn into rebellion, excuses into lies, chocolate into drugs.
And yeah, a friend of mine got one of those today. What a great start into the month! Giving life to something, someone. I'm really happy for him and I wish him all the best. That's the truth. And it spurs me on to give life to something, too. Not a baby, not yet, but something that can grow. Like a good idea.
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