>>213651903When your child is born, a chemical reaction happens in your body that you could never imagine.
I had my first a couple years ago, and up to that point I thought I had experienced every emotion it was possible to have, that I had done "everything" in life pretty much and was basically going to do similar things like I always had until eventually my body failed and I died.
But when you have a kid you experience an entirely new type of "love" for another human that is impossible to describe. I would die for my kid in a second, take a bullet for them, give them my organs if they had cancer, anything....and I really mean it. People say stuff like that, but when it is your own kid it is true. It is like your heart is beating outside your own chest, and lives in this little person, and they are your responsibility. You really come to appreciate how much your parents love you.
And you realize you are going to die, but you basically get to live on forever through them, because you share your genes...it means a lot when you look into your kid's face and see an expression, or a mannerism that reminds of you of your parents even.
Anyways, impossible to explain, it is really more of a visceral experience.