Turning 33 tomorrow, and this year have
been gifted with the best bday gift a man can ask for in the form of Kabir, my
son who is still a toddler born two weeks before my birthday. Next year onwards
he would be big enough to blow candles on my cake and fatherhood has changed me
more than my youth and my perceived maturity could change me in so many years,
do I miss anything, only one my dad’s presence and nothing else.
- Fatherhood makes you realize that there is more pleasure in just watching your baby smile than in watching your favorite football team ( Barcelona) knock the shit out of everyone else.
- You realize you don’t need a spa any more as the “gaa gaa goo goo” of your baby can relax any level of stress on your mind and your body.
- There is more pleasure in cleaning his poop than in eating out in your most favorite Chinese restaurant.
- There is more satisfaction when your son is sleeping in your arms than being able to get the tickets of F1 race in Greater Noida.
- Watching him cry then ensuring he stops crying is more gratifying than closing a big business deal that you have been working on for months, sometimes years.
- Your favorite smell is no longer Cool Water it’s your baby’s smell in your own room.
- You realize that being pee’d on by this baby is in some ways is not as gross as one thought it would be.
- You start hating fire crackers and because your kid can’t sleep.
- You realize that being up all night because the baby is crying can have a much larger positive impact on your personality than being up all night partying in the best night club in town.
- You realize how great your folks were, they took such good care of us with limited means.
My son has already made me everything that
being a real man would stand for.
