Family. It is all we have when we come to this world and if you are lucky, you live on in their memory after you pass to the ancestral halls. Hopefully you are blessed to be born to a loving one. If not, you still do your best to give your children the life that you may not have had.
Children. Blessings from Gods. Biologically speaking they are the reason/meaning of life. They are how we live on, both genetically and figuratively. I have none yet, but despite that my father died 5 years ago you can bet money that they will "know" their grandfather. They will hear stories about the bearded man that would forgo sleep after a long 16 hr foundry shift so that he could play ball with his boys. They will hear about his love of the woods and hunting. About teaching his boys to fight, fish, and to not shy away from a day of hard work. They will know him because he lives on in me. THAT is his gift to me. The gift of a parent to a child. It is also the parents' biggest responsibility.
Children are amazing. They inhabit a world that is filled with magic and they drink in information like a plant drinks in water after a rain. They may not be able to always process the info at the time but they have it all the same. We shape them by our very actions. It is a bond that transcends damn near everything. A person will often attempt the impossible if it means bettering their children's lives. This is natural and right.
We are here for such a brief time. Cherish those moments and bonds. Live for them, for they are life.
