Alexander C. Kaufman
@kaufman
Every morning our routine is the same: I get up between 6 and 7 am and let my wife, who wakes earlier to feed our newborn, go back to bed. I fix another bottle for our daughter, change her diaper, then she falls asleep on my chest for hours. I just read and occasionally kiss her little head, which — exactly like mine when I was born — is covered in so much dark brown hair it’s the first thing strangers comment on when they meet her. Every 15 minutes or so she sniffles or lets out a little yip and nuzzles her face into my chest and falls back asleep. I’m racked by a sense of how ephemeral this all is — a kind of pre-nostalgia for when I know I’ll look back and remember these mornings in the sepia-toned blur of memory. I can’t wait to until she can share meals with me and talk and read. I yearn to see who she’ll grow up to be. But right now I just feel so lucky for these mornings, when nothing mattered except loving and nurturing her, being her ultimate protector. What a gift unlike any other.
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Diñero
@gryphon
I'm still in college. But the point of all my struggles is to have the kind of life you do. Wish me luck
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Alexander C. Kaufman
@kaufman
Each phase of life has its own highs and lows. Enjoy college! I was so obsessed with getting to the next stage of life I hardly took the time to realize how free I was then. Don’t take it for granted. The job, the wife, the kid — all that will come in time when you’re ready. You’ll live that life when you get to it. Work hard now, but find ways to have fun and experiment and be free before you have people depending on you not to make mistakes.
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