As this post is going live, I am getting ready for, already on my way to Madison to see kid 2 for the weekend. It’s a semi emergency situation. I had mentioned earlier in another post about how he’s been struggling a little bit with school being away from home and working at a new level academically speaking.
I had made the offer to him to come out and see him when I probably didn’t really have the funds to do it, but I’m going to make it happen. While kid 1 is not in crisis mode or anything, I know the situation is pretty close to bad enough where he wants to move back to South Carolina and leave school in Wisconsin. I’m sure he’s floated the idea more than once already. I’m fact, X1 even floated the idea of flying down to South Carolina for a weekend.
Kid 1 has a different relationship with me than he does with X1. I understand that and I expected. First and foremost because she was with him every day and I was not. They’re going to have a dynamic that they’ll never be able to touch. But at the same time, I think kid 1 is at a moment where he needs his dad. And I know that 25 or 30 years ago, The Old Man would’ve done this for me; and any opportunity I have to be the kind of father to my boys that The Old Man was to me, I’ll take it.
I saw a TikTok post earlier today that really resonated with me. The creator of it had said “adulting is ghetto“. And they’re right. It sucks. It’s stressful. You have to figure out how to divide 16 apples among 17 people sometimes. I feel like I can only do so much. It’s a different world than the one that I grew up in. And it sucks that kid one in his generation are receiving the bad end of it. But at the end of the day, I love being a dad. I know that I realistically probably cannot do as much for my kids as the old man was able to do for me, but that doesn’t mean I’m not gonna try. 
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