True leadership begins not with control, but with presence. In a world full of tasks, the quietest work is often the most important: staying emotionally available, even when it hurts. This reflection traces two days of grief, growth, and the insight that difficult is not the same as impossible.
You don’t add a child like you add a hobby. You open a door to a life you can’t preview, you just walk in. And the fear? It becomes weight with meaning. Freedom without purpose is emptiness. Parenthood is a calling, not a constraint.
