When you become a parent, you meet your child. And then you meet your child again. And again, every day after that. You will never stop meeting your child. That is one reason to become a parent: To have a child is to fall in love with a thousand beautiful strangers.
Derek Thompson puts into words a feeling I have felt over and over with my children. I would only add that was my second kid, it only multiplies. I had to throw out everything I knew about parenting and start from scratch all over with him. It’s a feeling like nothing else.