Thursday, October 29, 2015

9 month old father

The blogger world...You here it right. I am a nine month old father now. Almost 6 years back when  my would be wife came into my life, I declared it with a blog almost immediately. One may ask, why so late now. The answer lies in the fact that it took some time for the emotions to sink in and to find some time to write the feelings out. Frankly, when I was looking for my life partner, it was like finishing a 5 km race with a podium finish. So I had to shout it out right? Here, it is the beginning of a marathon, and being the runner I had to first build up to the steady rhythm of the run, which is going to be a long haul, and then respond to the world with gestures that I am going steady.
2nd February, 2015, 3:50 p.m. when I first saw my son, though I felt elated, it was not like catch him, or cuddle him, or hug him, it was more astonishment that made me stand back and watch him. It was more like a new creation has come to this world, where me and my wife were just the spacecrafts to bring him into the world (I am sure my wife, being the mom would have had completely different set of emotions). The next day, when for the first time I went close to him lying on a baby-cot, I was still watching him and trying to build a communication.
With days, those feelings have completely changed. With time, my son started responding to me and the communication channel has been completely established. So much so that when I go home after office and press the calling bell, that small creature jumps up like a Diwali cracker expecting to see me, upon opening the door. My son has become my hope now for fulfilment of a lot of ambitions which till now have remained unachieved. Perhaps that is what every father feels and that is what ruins them. Hence, I vow not to force my will on my son. I wish he becomes a good human being, and in the process of being good he achieves everything. Are you wishing alongside me?
P.S - I am also trying to understand a lot of mystery about God,  The Supernatural, Machine Learning and purpose of life seeing my son grow. I will write about those in the subsequent blogs.