On Why I think (almost) Everyone Wants to be a Parent

You don't need to go to college.

You don't need to have a lot of money.

You don't need to be promoted to get there.

You don't need to qualify.

You don't need to apply.

In a world where most of us work so hard for so little, and spend a lifetime searching for love and meaning, and spend so much of our time steeped in mediocrity and selfishness and sadness; having and caring for a child is our chance to take part in something real and true. Our chance to do something selfless and meaningful. Our chance to experience something so much closer to the natural order of things than our other activities and priorities. Our assurance that, no matter what else life does or does not provide us, we were able to witness one beautiful miracle.

If I leave this life with nothing else, I will still have my time with Sophia.