When you experience a failure, you either go further down or you get tough. In my case, it was always the latter. Experiencing rejection and failures in my early days helped me learn the hard realities of life sooner. It made me tough, it made me a stone-hearted person!
But how tough can you get? Will it always be the same?
When my wife was pregnant, I experienced the pregnancy together with her. Of course, not physically but emotionally. It was exciting to move from one trimester to another and the level of excitement reached its peak in the last trimester. The first sonogram was like Racheal’s moment in F.R.I.E.N.D.S for me, I couldn’t make out anything! It was all blurry and I had to give that awkward smile to my wife seeing it.
Even though I brag about having a lion’s heart quite often, the only two moments I was scared in my life were when I went to a dentist and saw their weapons (tools) and walking in to operation theatre for my wife’s delivery.
All that moments of 9 months were coming to an end. Maybe it was the bloated pressure or the patience or the adrenaline-rush and excitement, holding my wife’s hands and anticipating the baby, his first sound and the cute cry couldn’t hold me anymore and I had my breakpoint!
I had read about the “Tears of Joy” in stories, had seen it in movies and I thought it will always be limited to that, but it took 30 years to realize the “Tears of Joy” is actually not a bluff! The tough guy, the stone-hearted guy had his first “Tears of Joy” moment and one small tiny baby’s entry did it!!
Happy Birthday my son!
