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Kids

They come into your life and you think you can handle them. You like to think you've prepared yourself well for them, made all the mental calculations on the budget, all the psychological preparations on what to do to pacify a wailing little human being, all the medical situations that can leave you sleepless and all that.

Good luck to you and what you have done.

Then they start growing up. They start asking you questions. They start developing personalities and quirks. You think you know where they got this penchant for gross stuff like booger and saliva. You think you know who they took their good looks from, but don't know exactly where they got their explosive temper. You find out you can't control how their behavior develops. You start to realize your kids are not your own flesh. They are different from you.

Then you look back at your own life and realize that this is just the start. Someday, your kids will leave you, too.

posted by dyeproks @ 11:34 PM