Life’s full of tradeoffs. We make them all day, every day. The biggest one we ever make is having kids. You give up a whole world of things. And, in return, you get a different whole world of things. I guess for some people, it’s not worth it. For me, it’s the best tradeoff I ever made.
In retrospect, I feel like previously my entire life, as fun as it was, was like a little tea party at a little toy tea set with tiny chairs and a tiny table. When I had my daughter, I looked up, and right there in front of me was a redwood tree. I was a bit stunned and maybe bewildered and I had to crane my neck to see the top of it. That tree was part of me and part of my wife and part of our daughter. But mostly it was my love for my daughter and an appreciation of how important I would be to her. It was hard to believe something so big was part of me. But it is. And it makes me very happy.
