Apr 22

I remember the time that my best bud’s wife had just given birth to a healthy baby girl. And I thought it was just amazing seeing the baby. At first, I didn’t know how to react of course, I was his best man if you want me to cut to the chase, so there’s the default happiness although the long hand story says I was shocked out of my system when I had been told that Lloyd was getting married. Marriage is a different thing to me. Knowing the stats of however many couples split up every second.

I’ve loved children since I started practcing in this field, they are the significant proof of purity in this world full of different people who give my character a new dimension sometimes. See, being a counselor doesn’t always make you a nice guy. Many parts of it have to do with knowing what’s right from wrong and more often than not my moral meter is being used by different people. But at the same time, my patience gets tested A lot.

So one day at work, Lloyd comes up to me and tells me we needed to talk. And I thought, hey he must’ve broken up with Anna — I was seeing what I wanted to see, I wasn’t looking at what he really wanted to say. I kept my ear open for the news, and he simply said, “Anna and I are having a baby.”

That was it. I couldn’t function. It felt entirely different all of a sudden. Not like those who come up to me to tell me they’ve finally made it as a couple and what a great thing it was to finally have a child after trying all this time, no. I was dealing with the guy whom I treated like my own brother after all these years, the man who almost reflected every inch of me. And it would be childish to say, but all the plans had shifted to a different phase. I had to find another fool that could take his place at the apartment, I had to get along well with the same fool, too.

The wedding followed in between the pregnancy. It was a small gathering of 30 people. It was one of those weddings that I really liked since it wasn’t your typical garden wedding, but a church wedding, very non-traditional one. Anna’s family was there, I was there and later on 2 of our buddies caught on to the event. I was happy for him, but I knew him best, above all that.

That was 5 years ago. A week ago, my wife told me that she’s 3 weeks pregnant and that I’m going to be a father soon. I know that at one point this was going to happen, but when I told Lloyd the news about it, he sprung out of the seat and told me that it was one of the best things that ever happened to him.

I seem to have been a better person these past couple of days due to this realization. I am doubly a more patient guy, and I take every word I say as carefully as breakable glass. I didn’t know these changes would take place, really. I want to be a good example to my child, that now I couldn’t just eat Goober from the jar without thinking that I have to show my child something he would follow. It stems from the simplest things and it was just something that opened my eye the stretch of the golden gate. This photo was the best father child photo I’ve ever seen, by the way.

I cannot wait until some nine months more.