The Best Job on Earth

Parenting is terrifying. I'm way more scared to be parent than I was to become a wife.The thing about being a wife is that your husband loves you for who you are (or should anyways). Although we always have room for improvement and should be constantly changing (hopefully for the better), our souse has excepted us as is. Every quirk, flaw, and perfection. He is an individual who makes his own decisions and can fend for himself. Just as the wife can. We are important to each other but physically, we are fine on our own.

With children, they are completely dependent on you till they can talk really. They rely on you to know what they want and need. to remember all the things that need to be done for them. They rely on you to vigilant and reliable. There's a commercial for a cold medicine that has a parent walk into a room and tell their baby that they need a sick day. And the baby just looks back with a blank expression. There are no breaks, vacations, or sick days with parenting. It is 100% all of the time till they leave the house and even after then because you never stop being a parent.

So it is terrifying to me, yes; but I also am so excited to be a parent (in two to five years, stop asking). Parenting is so rewarding because you get to see these little people grow up and become who they will be. And you get to watch them adopt your good traits, and bad. You get to see your spouses wonderful characteristics as well as flaws in them. And you get to see them develop traits and characteristics that are all their own. one hundred percent unique to them. You get to watch as a child that seemed to be completely influenced by your word and actions become uninfluenced by anything you say or do. You get to watch them make their own mistakes and learn from them because a lot of the time, that is the best and only way to learn some things. 

You get to see many days of unappreciation, and neglect but all those days are forgotten in the moment they show true appreciation. or when you get to seem them succeed and know that you helped them get there in one way or another. You also get to enjoy the successes they achieved on their own. As a parent you get to observe a wide variety of parenting methods and grow and expand your own.

In summary, parenting can be a scary and challenging lifelong task but in the end it is worth it. To conclude your life knowing you put one more good person into the world (if you did it right) would be a very fulfilling thought and a perfect way to leave you legacy.