I’ve purposefully never blogged before. I’d like to start my first venture into doing
so with that disclaimer intended for certain friends, since as a passionate
person I tend to be extremely vocal in my likes and dislikes. Yes
is funny that now I blog, enjoy the laugh.
This was just the first actual reason I had to blog. This is the modern diary, a thing to be left
behind and enjoyed by later generations, see how primitive and strange they
seemed. I suppose plenty of people keep
modern diaries, but I surely don’t know any of them and it seems a strange
alien thing for people to do. So yeah, I’m
blogging. I don’t intend to suggest anyone
read it but who knows.
I can’t say I really know my
parents, or for that matter, anyone in my generation’s very well. Sure, they’re around and I know what sorts of
music they listen to, what percentage of them have some funny or sometimes sad
biases, and various other trivia. In the
case of my own parents I do have quite a collection of fun facts about
them. What I don’t have is any idea what
they were actually like when I was of the toddling and later ages. Lately I have conceived an idea of what that
untold story is like, every time I see my friend’s children being surrounded by
the unusual and distinct circumstances they are put into when they come to
visit us at our house. I just keep
thinking how mommy and daddy’s life goes on completely outside of their
consciousness.
In an
effort to let my own children have the opportunity, I intend to make a series
of reality-TV style videos of me talking to future kid (i.e. when they’re at
some imaginary adult-ish age) in the level of honesty and vocabulary that an
adult can handle. I intend it to include
the dumb things I do at the same time, but also what’s going on in my life, how
parenting is, etcetera. I am fully
aware this could be cancelled after I watch a few of these videos, but it
sounds fun and I’m committed. I would
LOVE to have had just a brief conversation with my dad when he was at the age I
am now, a time he must have been an entirely different person mentally and
physically. I feel that would be part of
the complete experience of being his son.
So maybe it’ll be cool in a decade or two, I have no idea. Cloud storage and HD webcams make keeping
something like this around effortless.
Tomorrow
(6/18) is the day we finally “go public” with the whole baby thing. I didn’t do super well with waiting 12 weeks,
so most of my friends have known since as few as 5. I’m excited, and it took a long time to
happen! I will keep trying this “blogging” thing as
we go. Tomorrow is the beginning of a
new era!
