Things are changing

So I'm going to be a father. That is pretty incredible. After 10 years of deliberately childless marriage, I pretty sure most people had written us off for producing progeny. What can I say, life is nothing if not changes! (I am firmly in the camp that believes that 'May you live in interesting times' is a blessing, not a curse).

I've been thinking a bit about the changes that are coming our way. There are some obvious one's: like setting up a nursery, cutting back on travel plans, letting folks at work know that I will be out for while in August - September, etc. I've been kind of surprised at the not so obvious ones. I noticed recently that my world view has shifted. Not a really radical change, more like we have to fix these things, cause my child is going to have to live in the world! I mean, its OK if I wind up living in a post-apocolyptic, daily struggle for survival, existence. More or less it would be our own fault. But I'll be dammed if I had that sort of world off to my kids.

I'm sure this shift is by no means unique to Karen and I. It's just interesting to suddenly realize my perspective has shifted without consciously thinking about it. Probably explains a lot of the heated politics at both the local and national level.