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Originally Posted by swa(y)
i would just like to express how proud i am of you for the extremely hazardous and difficult journey you took to bring a child into this beautiful world.
congratulations...you deserve it!
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Thanks a lot to you and everyone else for the well-wishes and sentiments expressed in this thread and by email. Formulating (let alone in English) how I feel about parenthood is probably impossible, but this post comes pretty close (posted by Johnny 13 in the very interesting thread at
http://www.electrical.com/phpBB2/viewtopic.php?t=12568):
"There is nothing about parenthood that is not understandable from the outside, and it is not an experience you need to go through to "get", but it does feel like there is a conceptual veil. Before we had her, I could only see the edges of the experience mostly. I could imagine it accurately, but not grok it for an extended period.
I know why people are hooked on their children, they give you an understanding of the value of your own life. It is amazing I am not sobbing all the time, I find it so moving. My daughter is still young enough that she is completely innocent, She has never lied, and she has never been disappointed. I am completely dreading her first understanding of what the world is really like."