Hi everyone,
As you may have guessed, I have been experiencing some growing pains with the birth of our little one, Leo Crescencio. I’m not sure how to describe any of it. I feel like I am living at the intersection of so many conflicting emotions that I can’t even begin to express where my head is. I am completely and simulataneously humbled and proud, exhausted and exhilerated, lost and driven, panicked and confident. It’s nothing short of totally overwhelming to feel so much all at once, and I can help wondering when it’s all going to end, and how empty I’ll feel then. I suspect I have about 18 years to prepare myself mentally for that, though;-)
In Japanese, there’s a great term for parents who are ga-ga over their own kids: oyabaka. It literally means that your child renders you a shameless, bumbling fool. Oyabaka so captures the essence of what it is to be totally and helplessly absorbed by your child’s existence that I’m ready to be honest with myself: I’m not a ‘proud parent,’ I’m a bona fide oyabaka to the bone!
And without further ado…
I’ll be back with a lot of catching up over the coming weeks.
Apologies, as always, for the delay.
Your (very foolish) man in Japan,
Steven
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