Karthick Gopal

I was sitting at my desk with coffee on the side. My little human was on my lap and loves touching and playing with my mechanical keyboard so I knew full well that I was tempting fate.

These little humans are chaos agents.

As their tactile and  sensory input capabilities increase, they leave debris in their wake. Especially   around objects you have deemed mundane or extremely important.

There’s no in between.

For my baby it is overturning cups and pulling cables. Guess whats next to my computer?

So obviously there was a tug and pull and an overturn.

Coffee spilled all over my laptop on my lap on the carpet leaving stains and a smell.

Yet I couldn’t get upset.

It wasn’t because I knew it’d happen. It happened with my wife and friends and I was mad for days. But for my baby it was okay. All the cable pulling chaos wreck balling couldn’t get me mad.

It is when I realized what they mean by unconditional love.

I have tried to tell you what it is. But you have to experience it for yourself to really know what it means.

It’s unlike anything I have experienced in my life.

Have kids. You unlock a part of yourself you didn’t know existed.