Intro.
Some things in life are exciting, and I have done a lot of exciting things in my time. I've done scary things with my skateboard that I used to think were only possible in video games. I have gone so fast with my snowboard in the mountains that I thought I might start lifting off the ground! I know the feeling of riding up to a huge kicker with a dirtbike, my heart about to blow a hole through my chest, and wonder if I calculated my gears and speed right, and then float through the air trying to see the landing through eyes on an adrenaline high.
Alright maybe I'm exaggerating just a little.
But the honest truth is, no adrenaline rush, no idiotic stunts I've pulled, nothing, has ever hit me as hard as becoming a father. Everything else is a wisp in the wind in comparison to that moment when I fully realized that I had just become a father. There is no word for that feeling. . . To describe it I would try to use words like excitement, dread, fear, happiness, total joy, more fear, love, and back to excitement, and then the whole works all over again!
Today is father's day. Today we celebrate being fathers! |
