Fatherhood strips the paint off every man alive, all that enduring self mythology you carved out for yourself over decades of living, that entire carefully manicured persona gone in six months because a child does not care who you think you are. a child cares what you do when you think no one is looking, and someone is always looking now. your son will learn what you are not from your words but from watching your face when his mother is talking, from how you sit when you're tired, from whether you get up anyway. and if what he finds there is weakness he will know it with the same dumb immediate certainty that an animal knows rain is coming
"This plague was a catastrophe."
"Indeed sir. Lord have mercy."
"I seems our Age of Late Antiquity is collapsing."
"What now, Imperator?"
"Anything is possible. We are entering an intermediate age."
"Somthing like a Middle Age sir?"
"Exactly".
@wil_da_beast630 It dilutes the talent big time. Women who made it in the workforce or owned thier own businesses before that were far less numerous but they were the genuine article.
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This is free advice from an expensive psychologist.
If you're an anxious person, do everything for fun. Go to a job interview for fun. Submit documents for fun. Start a blog for fun. Anxiety feeds on importance. Don't make everything a matter of life and death.