…And what a feeling!
On the 1st October 2009, the day before my birthday, my daughter, Lillana (Lilla for short) was born, nicknamed by the hospital staff ‘Cookie’. What a gift and what a feeling!
Since the birth I have been rather preoccupied as you can imagine and it has provided me with some realization too just how much time I tend to spend on the internet. After looking at that I have been able to determine how much internet time I really love and that which I don’t. With this new-found insight I am excited about putting into practice a new approach to my online activities, which will improve my day to day quality of life by allowing me the time to devote to my family, whilst still allowing me the time to enjoy my work to it’s fullest.
I have included a rough recording of a song I wrote in July at a time when my wife and I were presented with emotional challenges with her pregnancy. Without going into details, we were faced with some uncertainty for a few weeks about the health of our baby. During this time I faced some personal fears and came to the very empowering conclusion that whatever the outcome I would still be receiving the gift of a life and allowed something greater than myself to handle the matter.
I figured that, seeing as I could not choose the outcome of the situation I could choose how I felt about it and I wrote this song to help remind me of the fact that everything happens to teach us something about ourselves and a situation is only a problem if you choose to label it as such. I was very grateful for the fact that I very quickly found myself feeling extremely happy about being a father, no matter what the situation with my baby and of course I am grateful now too for now being a father to a very healthy and beautiful little girl.
The Boy at Heart Story continues soon!
From Longing to Living:
Bill O'Leary
Derek Sivers
Maria Palma
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Wow – congratulations! I used to be married to an October 1st Libra and he was absolutely the funniest person I ever met. Maybe she will have a good sense of humour.
Thanks Gail!
Nice to hear from you. She does smile a lot, so I believe she will be naturally of the happy and jovial type.
I guess a lot of that is down to myself, so I'll be projecting the best possible attitude to everything from now on, especially when she's within earshot and eyeshot!
Love your avatar by the way!
Rob