Parenthood

Is there any aspect of life more beautiful than raising a child? The idea seems divine to me, I cannot think of anything that is a greater privilege than being capable of creating the gift life. The journey of child and parent is the most profound one my puny mind can imagine.

Creating a life that starts off as an almost entirely useless and caring for it, feeding & cleaning it before it's capable of doing those things for itself. Then as it's brain begins to develop, you start teaching it these magical things called words, and how words work together. Once language is acquired though, that's when things really get interesting. The things that shape how your child will perceive the reality around him, and his place within it, the conversations you have with them, the stories you tell, the wisdom you impart, the words you decide to utter to them, have such an unfathomable influence. Until all of a sudden, they're capable of cleaning themselves, feeding themselves, learning for themselves, all the things they used to rely on you for they can now do for themselves. And whats more, they can become more than you ever dreamed of! Thanks to the loving nurturing of it's parents, the teachings you give on to them, a tiny, useless, helpless being grows to become equipped with tools making it capable of expanding his own skills and transform into a being unimaginable from that which it started off as. You create life, and only through seeing that life transform through your guidance to decide to take it's life in whatever direction it chooses and become whatever it desires, only then can one really appreciate the value of their own lives.