Description
If you want to know what pure, unadulterated life looks like, spend an afternoon with a 2-year-old. My toddler doesn't care that I'm tired, that my knees ache when I get up, or that the world outside is full of heavy anxieties. They live entirely in the span of the next five seconds. Watching them chase a bubble or get ecstatic over a cardboard box forces me to pull my head out of my own dark thoughts. I sometimes spend so much time worrying about life itself that I forget that I'm right in the middle of the good stuff. These kids are teaching me how to breathe again. They don't know about deadlines or aging; they just know that Dad is here right now, and right now is a pretty great place to be.