not quite, but it was the most vivid example I could come up with to illustrate the difference between seeing and experiencing. I think the contrast is comparable. Given all I had seen and heard about parenting, and from baby sitting jobs, and helping with baby cousins.. sure I knew how to warm a bottle of milk and change a diaper.. but it's so much more
I think there's some sort of physical shift in your body once you see your own child.. perhaps even a body chemistry change. They have shown men to have sympathy cramping and symptoms during their wives pregnancy, and there's even a tribe where the men breast feed. yes, you heard right.. they breast feed. Their little man boobs lactate.. So to me it stands to reason that other changes occur as well. My view of the world has also changed, at least to some degree.. like I'm seeing it anew, through their eyes.. all the wonder and awe, and from the eyes of a protective dad as well, which is a little less fun. "My god, my house is one large death trap.. how am I not dead?" .. (ok, not quite that bad.. but now I'm having a little fun at my own expense
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