One of the effects of having a child is that you start to see everything through different eyes. It's as though someone switched my goggles but didn't tell me that I had a new pair.
For those of you who know me well, you already know how detailed and critical I could be. Seriously, at work I was known for spotting the smallest details that weren't nailed. It drove people crazy (we can talk about that another time). Now imagine that character trait on speed. Fine for protecting said progeny, not so good for calming a new parent's mind!
We went for a walk yesterday, nothing big, just an easy stroll down to Commercial Drive and back. I now know where every marked crosswalk is, each rundown house, all the locations where people hang & openly smoke pot, each suspicious character wandering around; every single detail between here and the Drive is now thoroughly etched into my mind. We've lived in this area for 14 years, so it's not that I am not aware of the pro's and con's to the neighborhood - it's just that now it's all being filtered differently. My perception of things has changed.
I think it will be interesting to see how this new outlook colours my thoughts and most importantly, my decision making over the next year.
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