Letter from your unborn child
Manuê at ACL
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Once I was nothing but a thought. You may have dreamed about me for years. Or I might have just happened. But the moment you learned I was about to become a reality you felt a tremendously deep need to care for me and protect me.
I am not here yet but you know you will sacrifice. You will sacrifice whatever needs sacrificing. You will give up your sleep. You will forget to eat at times. You will hurt when I am hurting. You won’t find peace if I’m not at peace. You will give up your dreams. Your life and its completeness will seem to depend on me and my wellbeing from now till the day you die. And during the first years of my life, your life will revolve exclusively around me. You won’t have a life separate from mine.
It’s an instinct. The moment you become a parent, you feel an insurmountable need to care and cater. They say it’s normal.
And because you will have made the ultimate sacrifice of dedicating precious life time to me, time that nobody can give you back, and because you will have cared for me, fed me, dressed me, rocked me, bathed me, cured me, comforted me, taught me, protected me, guided me and so much more, you may feel as though you have rights over my life.
You created me. I am your creation in the sense of being a product of your DNA. I get it.
But I am also a blessing. A decision you made about your life in your own personal quest for meaning.
I made you feel emotions you never knew existed. I made you experience life in a way you never thought possible. I made you see life through the prism of miracle. I made you smile. I made you laugh. I made you cry of joy. I made you proud. I brought compassion to your heart. I made you believe in God. I gave you strength. I made you feel you accomplished something in this life. As you learnt what it feels to be somebody’s universe, truly somebody’s universe, I made you feel untouchable, unstoppable, I made you feel eternal. I made life feel as if it is worth it.
I never asked for anything. You gave me everything because I was your choice....