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So many things cross my mind as I write this first post. I have tried to understand and still figuring it out how I am going to become a blogger. Of course I have to admit that this is a new territory for me. Something I have just seen and read from others but never took the time to start exploring it deeper and apply it to my own life. I hope that I can manage to learn quickly as my objective is to share life and what on my perspective it is important. I am still deciding if this is going to be a private or public blog but I just guess that I will start having it public to simply explore and see what this is all about. I understand that I have to be conscious and respectful to others as I am to myself. That whatever I express now or in the future impacts life and with that premise, I will ensure that I try to be as conscious and respectful on my sharing.

I guess that with time and the experiences I get from this I can modify my future posts and of course the interactions I get from other people to being private and/or public. It will be interesting to see where this journey takes me :-) In the meantime, I am curious to also read and learn from other people's posts to my own.

What a better way to start this wonderful adventure by sharing what has been the GREATEST moment of my life. Something that I had inside of me and that it materialized on February 23, 2009. Being fortunate and blessed to be a parent has been quite a remarkable experience that I am STILL learning. For such a long time, I thought I had that sense of wanting to be a parent but I did not understand to what degree? Of course, when you get conscious about the idea of becoming a parent when you are younger (mid 20's) it seems like a scary thought. For me, I had no clue what, when and where I was going to become a parent but I was conscious and wished that I had that opportunity at some point of my life. 

Knowing many friends and acquaintances that have been parents or looking to become plus reading especiallized books regarding parenting has given and still gives me different views and values of it. On a more personal note, having experienced and raised by only my mom fueled up that idea of wanting to become a father. Even though my father loved me and could not live with me, his absence helped me form my character and views of life and parenting.

With that all said, Alexander came to my life during a time of major changes of my life. I had just recently moved into Sweden (1 year) and recently married. Oh yeah! maybe too many changes, adaptations and situations going on in a short period of time, but guess that is what life brings right?  Of course, my instinct pulled me into this wonderful experience even though having additional major changes to my personal and married life. As time and life has moved forward with all these changes, I am in a point of major extasis and deep connection with this wonderful creature that is my son. Conscious to say that as everyone knows "everything happens for a reason" and even though at some points during my life I have thought and felt how hard, painful and difficult it has been, at the end everything sorts out for the best. I am a true believer of that and thank life and God for that chance to experience adversity and the beauties of it.

Being a single dad is as challenging as not being a single parent. Children are such a force of energy, present time, attention and emotions that are moving - non stop and on a much quicker pace that you can already imagine BUT living and emotionally experience each day with those situations definetely puts you in the right perspective. 

I am happy to be Alex's dad and thank him for letting me learn about him and parenting as he grows up.

Till the next post! Keep on smiling and enjoying life!

Cheers,

Vic

 

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