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we made a lil guy https://t.co/BPp4KOvAjc https://t.co/RPnmuHLt3f
it’s been about 4 days so far and it’s easily been the most fascinating experience of my life. there’s so much I wanna write about it but I also wanna be present for it so I’m resorting to sketching lots of stray incomprehensible notes in a few seconds here and there lol
here’s a quick one. I used to have a talking point about how kids know what they want better than adults. I think that’s correct in a sense. But it’s also fascinating to witness a literal newborn struggle with competing wants, before any wider social considerations. Do I wanna sleep or eat? It’s a hard question to answer especially when you have no knowledge or experience yet! You can see him conflicted and confused about it! Dozens of things like this
another: Hungry newborn obviously wants to feed. But no motor skills yet. Own hand gets in the way of between mouth and boob. Tries earnestly sucking on own hand. I swear, simply witnessing this gave me a micro-enlightenment, like oh, sometimes “self-sabotage” is merely self-*obstruction* and a skill issue re: perception and feedback loops etc. do we not all get in our own way sometimes? How much of it is intentional? How much of it is just skill issue, at a hilariously mundane level?
another: this lil guy is one of the most incompetent people I know and I love him more than I can put into words. this simple fact slices through an incredibly overwrought Gordian knot in my mind-body-soul about love and competence. My son is intrinsically lovable and that means I was/am too. And so were/are you. And so is everyone
a newborn can go from 0-100 screaming his lungs out and then 100-0 back to beatific bliss in a matter of seconds. Something about witnessing this has been kinda profound to me. like, oh you can just do that? I guess I forgot!
witnessing my wife go through pregnancy and birth and then nursing our son with her body makes me love and admire her even more than I already did. she is a warrior and a saint. It also makes me question the limits of hyper-individualist philosophy written by childless men
@visakanv oh my god yes. there are types of knowledge that are only available after your body has had a particular experience - like nursing a child, or fathering a child philosophy would do best to acknowledge this https://t.co/VRWz3GgMmA
@visakanv AHHHHHH OH MY GOD CONGRATS https://t.co/Ghah8YGoab
