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“I watched my kid cross the stage and felt the years go by.”
Eighteen years compressed into one walk across a stage. The feeling in your chest is time made visible, the proof that the seasons you thought were endless were always counting down. You did the work and it's showing. Now let the moment teach you to be present for the seasons still ahead.
Your Practice
- Tell your child one thing you're proud of that has nothing to do with grades.
- Write down what this stretch of parenting taught you.
- Don't rush past the bittersweet. Let it land fully.
- Name how you'll stay close as the relationship changes shape.
The Architects
“Life is not a dress rehearsal - this is probably it. Make it count.”
Sam Altman, "The days are long but the decades are short," blog.samaltman.com, April 2015 (published the week after his 30th birthday), item 2