We live in a society where everyone has their own opinion. You read an article and you think you are the expert on the topic. The more you are emotionally involved, the more you think you are in the right. There are hundreds of books (not articles) in a library on how to raise a child, how to be a better parent, how to tackle impossible fatherhood etc. For me, this was especially challenging because I was deeply lacking a father figure in my childhood....
The question stayed with me for multiple days after reading a book about a person living with multiple sclerosis. The truth is that no matter what we wish or how we wish to be remembered, people we are interacting with, are going to remember us only by how they feel around us. In other words, relationship with other people is the only most important factor in how people are going to remember us....
My wife said yesterday to me that I have to remind her how hard is to have a newborn if she ever wants to had another one. She said I have to record her while she was talking about how kids take up so much time and energy. She was talking about all those nights without sleep and days without proper relaxation hours. About being constantly under the pressure that you don’t have enough time for anything else but kids....