Regrets.

Around about 8 weeks ago the most amazing event of my life happened, my baby girl Maren arrived in this world ☺

Now you might be wondering why this is titled “Regrets” after reading that last sentence. I most definitely do not regret having a child, it’s awesome! But..

A common theme around having your first child is the change. What ever the change may be, it’s probably related to their being another person to think of rather than yourself — a person who is completely and utterly reliant on you.

Recently I’ve been thinking about what I used to dream about and how that’s changed now we have Maren. I was asking myself if I thought I’d have any regrets about things that probably wouldn’t happne now I was a father.

The answer? We’ll get to that, but the effect was that I let some stuff go that I’d been thinking about doing for a while. Things that would have been a bit selfish or I couldn’t share with Rach and Maren.

Life flows on, around things and past things — like a river, it sometimes engulfs a boulder standing in it’s path, and other times it drifts by a log resting on the bank.

It took me a while to put what I was thinking into words, but I think this is near enough.

Don’t regret something because you should have done it, just be happy that you could have done it.

Flow past it and see what’s around the next corner ☺