ライアン・ダニエル・ドブソンのインスタグラム(ryanddobson) - 6月20日 16時08分

Most people won't tell you fatherhood is terrifying. Instead, well-meaning platitudes about how "fast they grow up" or that you should "enjoy it while it lasts." But here's the real-talk: sometimes it's terrifying. And I say that as a person who comparatively has had a pretty easy go of things. Even so, sometimes I find it unnervingly tumultuous. Like when you're run-carrying a 6 year old little body - soft pink pajamas and American girl doll hair in your face - around the walled hospital perimeter, from wrong-parking-structure to right-building-wrong-entrance through one door then another then-- an admissions desk to-- "D-o-b-s-o-n. Not Dodson, b as in Boy, Dobson. Right. She's six. We thought she was fine but then--" She wasn't. I mean, she is. She's fine, we think she is, and so do the doctors. I'm not writing this to be overly dramatic. Just to tell you that sometimes it's shaking. Because, as part of this whole parenting deal you've exposed yourself to the possibility that she might not be ok. Like, someday.
Oddly, if you stopped to think about it, you'd realize that the huge majority of your life was lived out apart from her existence - you were just fine before, 20-some years of as your own epicenter. But now you do know that child... and to imagine, to put your mind even momentarily inside the theoretical reality of a going-backwards... .

If you're reading this, I suspect a person has, at one point, felt that same thing about you. At some moment your father or mother did that same frenetic run-carry and mid-stride realized the danger you presented and how your absence might one day vacuum out the inside of them... So happy day to them. It is a good to have a yearly chance to stop and think, "Oh yeah, my father felt that way about me. Your parent cared about you." Thanks to them.

And yes - faster than your breath intake to ask the question - yes, without hesitation, I'd do it again.

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