Week 28
New
July 10 - 16
It's difficult to describe the tangible connection you feel when in the room with a parent and their new child. I don't have children of my own, but having many close friends and now a brother that have been blessed with children, it's fascinating to watch. The range of thoughts and feelings is broad, and indeed intense, even as a spectator. There is something about an infant child that sweeps away all of the superfluous noise that we deal with on a day to day basis. Jobs and careers, finances and minor health issues, pesky neighbors and countless other concerns and inconveniences seem to become very small when compared to the little life that is completely and utterly dependent on you.
Perhaps it's good to think about the fact that every action, every word, and every attitude a parent takes has a tremendous impact, short and long term, on their child. I'd like to think that as people, it would adjust our attitudes towards how we treat others, the respect we have for ourselves, and drive thoughtful awareness of our day to day choices and the environments we choose to place ourselves in and expose ourselves to.
Perhaps that's one of the many purposes of how us as people were created to multiply. Bound up in the inherent need for relationship, search for meaning and purpose, and instinct to protect and care for what we view as our own, a new baby seems to streamline our lives... not in the volume of things to do, certainly, but rather in the shuffling and very clear re-organization of our priorities.
Image taken with Canon 5DMII, 24-70 2.8L lens, 1/160 sec @f2.8, ISO 400
It's difficult to describe the tangible connection you feel when in the room with a parent and their new child. I don't have children of my own, but having many close friends and now a brother that have been blessed with children, it's fascinating to watch. The range of thoughts and feelings is broad, and indeed intense, even as a spectator. There is something about an infant child that sweeps away all of the superfluous noise that we deal with on a day to day basis. Jobs and careers, finances and minor health issues, pesky neighbors and countless other concerns and inconveniences seem to become very small when compared to the little life that is completely and utterly dependent on you.
Perhaps it's good to think about the fact that every action, every word, and every attitude a parent takes has a tremendous impact, short and long term, on their child. I'd like to think that as people, it would adjust our attitudes towards how we treat others, the respect we have for ourselves, and drive thoughtful awareness of our day to day choices and the environments we choose to place ourselves in and expose ourselves to.
Perhaps that's one of the many purposes of how us as people were created to multiply. Bound up in the inherent need for relationship, search for meaning and purpose, and instinct to protect and care for what we view as our own, a new baby seems to streamline our lives... not in the volume of things to do, certainly, but rather in the shuffling and very clear re-organization of our priorities.
Image taken with Canon 5DMII, 24-70 2.8L lens, 1/160 sec @f2.8, ISO 400
