2023 Author: Anita Thornton | [email protected]. Last modified: 2023-05-22 03:30
Simon at 32. Malika, his 6-year-old daughter, is everything to him. Dad involved, loving and funny, he admits: "his birth is the most beautiful thing that has happened in my life". Yet…
He didn't want to be a father. Not here. Not yet. It was not, according to him, the right time: “Things were rather chaotic with my spouse at the time, I had just started a new job, I was driving an old car and had no house or savings. Away from his family, Simon asks himself many questions, but only one particularly torments him: “Would I be up to it, would I be a good father?”.
Love at first sight
Nine months of pregnancy have passed, and from the first to the last, Simon felt no particular attachment to the unborn child. Until the day when, for the first time, his gaze landed on Malika's hoe. “At that moment, says Simon, I thought she was the most beautiful child in the world and I was overwhelmed with love for her. Unconditional love. “Nothing was ever the same. “A child does not change the world, adds Simon amused, but it changes the order of priorities and your universe! Becoming a dad also takes you back to childhood and you get dosesso big, so excessive of love that it gives new meaning to your life. »
Message to the man he was
When Malika was born, Simon was 26 years old. If he could go back in time, what would he say to who he was then, the man scared of becoming a father? From the outset he replies: “You can no longer be selfish and think only of yourself. You will become the most important person in the eyes of your child and it will give meaning to your life. You're going to introduce your mini-you to life, and the massive doses of love you're going to receive will make up for all the daily challenges that come with being a dad. You will take pleasure in making her joyful and happy and it will fill you, that's what I would say to her. »
What kind of daddy?
And this little Malika, sweet and endearing with an overflowing imagination, what kind of daddy does she have? “I know how to be strict when necessary, explains Simon, but I am rather dynamic. Malika and I can play Barbie as well as Cowboys. We have a lot of fun together. “Besides, if there is one thing he would like his daughter to keep in memory, it is their moments of giggles before bedtime” and all the nonsense that we do, he specifies. Without forgetting the fact that I love him madly and that I only want his happiness.”.
If you ask Simon if he wants more children, the answer is immediate:
“Of course! A child puts magic in a house and I want to start a family with the woman II like ! I want to share all the happiness and beautiful moments that it brings, with her. I want us to live this, together, from start to finish. »
In order to respect the anonymity of the persons, the first names have been changed.
