Reply #8: It's Not Being Married, It's Being a Parent [View All]

It's the toughest and best job in the world. You watch a human form in front of your eyes. You realize how many childish tricks adults play all day long. It's ASTOUNDING! Power trips, tantrums, pouting -- adults do them all. And they resent like HELL when you point out they're doing the same thing your four-year old does.

But once you are one, you know something a non-parent doesn't know. It isn't about biology. It's about responsibility for a truly helpless person, who is utterly dependent on you to make the right calls. This will sober up most anyone. How anyone can walk away from it is beyond me. But it's the strongest thing in my life, bar nothing.

I wouldn't call it hubris. But it is a knowingness.