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RE: A Day in the Clouds (Chapter 2) - The Hours Between 0600 and 0700
Oh, you're going to be a father soon?? Nice!! Congratulations to you and the mrs, man! :D Certainly a cause for celebration!
I think it's a difficult balance to achieve. Fatherhood is a great challenge in itself, and taking those factors certainly doesn't help. Your kid being afraid of you, even a little, might be unavoidable. It's either you treat his as a friend or as a son, I guess, with the former almost always having trouble with respect.
We don't know each other well, but I have a good feeling that you're going to ace that fatherhood thing :D Your kid may be frightened of you sometimes as he's growing up, but I'm sure you two are going to be the best of friends when he/she is of age.
Thanks for the good feelings. We'll see. Perhaps my child will be the first to be born already capable of rational reasoning.
I know we're talking about it in jest, but you never know. Anything is possible! I wouldn't mind mine being the second to be born with that capability if yours is the first haha!
Wouldn't that be nice!
It would definitely be scary at the start though!
"It's only reasonable, Papa, that you spend more time playing with me and less time working. I, after all, have limitless potential, whereas you have demonstrated an upper boundary to your potential. Invest in me."
HAHAHA! If I would ever be at the other end of that conversation, that would certainly be my 5th most strangest conversation. Makes sense though. Why would I invest on a depreciating asset when I could ... Wait, why am I taking investment advice from someone who needs helps going to potty??
"Well that's an ad hominem attack if I ever heard one. One's rationality is not correlated with one's potty-ing abilities. Really, Papa, you hold onto some of the most cliched, unsubstantiated stereotypes. Not that this is particularly relevant, but Stephen Hawking, the world's most brilliant physicist, some say, needs help going to the potty. It does not impact his rationality."
With kids these days, I feel conversations like that aren't far off from being reality. I'm putting money on it happening just after our lifetime A few years after, tops.