Fatherhood: Making The Grade

I never thought fatherhood would be a piece of cake, and if I was going to rate the experience just five months into my life's new assignment, I would only say I've yet to finish reading the syllabus.

Forget orientation and manuals, my five-month old daughter has ignited, in me, a passion for learning and teaching that I've never experienced. I often considered my own life as a road with a series of potholes, created by many different reasons. These potholes develop from consequences of past decisions or events, and give no warning to their existence. Being a father has given me a real understanding of the importance of each and every event that happens in our lives. Whether it is the one traumatic experience we never could forget, or the evolution of a series of decisions that one day defines us as humans, they all are valuable to the person we become.

As a father, I am seeing my life's road, and I'm making plans to fill some of these potholes. I will one day want my daughter to exist on a road with less potholes than me, and whether or not I am able to learn enough when it becomes time to teach her, is a question I will pose and try to answer daily.

My life, up until now, has lacked a real clear destination or potential for powerful legacy. I feel empowered to stretch my imagination to where I can now go and perform. I feel growth daily, and it's through the birth and aging of my 5-month old daughter, that I can expand my limbs and grow into the person I never knew I wanted to be, and the father I was always destined to be. I am Sean, and I am Destiny Daddy.