I usually tell people that I am passionate about technology. I don’t know if that is true anymore. Ever since the pandemic hit, something has changed.
I used to be passionate about wave surfing. That was all that I could think of. Now, I have not been in the water since my first kid was born six years ago. I need to change that. I need to go surfing again.
Oh. And hello from Sweden, by the way. I’m very much a real person. I am one of those people you met in the early days of Quake, when you thought “there is a real person behind everyone of those!”
Parents who take time for themselves and don't _just_ live for their kids tend to end up happier and with better relationships with their children as they grow up.
[1] I don't have children of my own, so wtf do I know. But: My lifestyle, spending a lot of time practically living with my friends and their families, allows me to get a fairly deep insight into a large set of varied families over the last 20y.
Also have no kids myself but can support this observation with N=2 anecdata.
Couple of friends who continued to live their lives - with the kids as additional features - have ended up with kind, intelligent, thoughtful little people.
Other couple who didn't have much adventurous spirit to begin with and sacrificed everything about themselves to do "parenting" have ended up with selfish, rude little shits.
I used to be passionate about wave surfing. That was all that I could think of. Now, I have not been in the water since my first kid was born six years ago. I need to change that. I need to go surfing again.
Oh. And hello from Sweden, by the way. I’m very much a real person. I am one of those people you met in the early days of Quake, when you thought “there is a real person behind everyone of those!”