To be Someone
...must be a wonderful thing.
In my life I never found that balance of happiness. Mostly because I'm pretty self aware of how pointless mostly everything is... being a Dad is the only time you really put something else WAY before you - and I mean like death... like you would openly and willingly and instinctively die for someone. That's real. And maybe that's what happiness is - that comfort of finality wrapped into birth.
Nature is much like that - and since we're apart of nature - it's natural (sorry for the puns) that we feel that way when it comes to offspring. I don't know if everyone does - but I would imagine there is a tiny nugget in the pit of just about every father that says "I would die for my kids." - I take comfort in that - to me honestly it would be the best kind of existence - it would make the most sense rather than running around buying things for nothing - saying things that will only evaporate -
Take for example the greatest minds and leaders in the history of the world - what is truly left of THEIR life is nothing - some quotes - a couple books - an invention or so - but their legacy lives on in blood and lineage and to be honest in all the books i've read they talk more about the things that don't endure than the one that do - but... I guess some of those things do endure like Democracy, the printing press, works of fiction -
