# When I met my son for the first time after he was borne.


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Every person has something to share about their saddest or happiest moment - they are two sides of a coin. Keeping ourselves strong during our sadness, helps us appreciate happiness more. Both of them are not a forever thing - we all go through them in different phases of life. This week [Weekend-Engagement Friday blog prompt](https://peakd.com/hive-168869/@galenkp/we98-weekend-engagement-friday-blog-prompts) has some niche prompts that I believe everyone can post about. The only challenge is to focus on just one photo - but I am sure, we all will have that one precious photo to describe that special moment - so  have a look and participate, I would like to share my happiest moment of my life when I met my son for the first time. 

We have a tradition as part of which the first child is borne at the lady's house and she departed to her house when she was seven months pregnant, leaving me alone. Ideally, she should have gone before a month, but it got delayed because her father was not able to come and take her and I did not have time to go with her. In those times, train was the only means to travel - it used to take almost 2 days for one side journey. That time of separation was the most difficult time for me, probably will write about it in another post. 


Those three months till our son was borne, was time to remain strong and do my job - with a promise inside to be aside her during the child birth. Life sometimes puts some constraints in front of us - to be not able decide as we wish. I was working in a very tough project and was not allowed to take leave for more than a week, when she was due. I was told I can take leave for a month only after the final deliverables after a month. That was a hard time to choose what to do, I called the lady, and explained her everything - choose between a very short stay vs a month. Scheduling the travel was not so easy that time as well, so we had to decide fast. Initially she told to come for a short time but then later she made up her mind and we decided that I will be there after my project completes. It was our most exciting time to see our anchor coming to this universe and all I could enjoy was getting the update every half an hour until that moment came in. Everyone was around the lady, all my family members as well as hers, except me, and I was truly missing those moments. Later they shared few photos and videos over mail, we did not have freedom there as well. I was desperate to hold him in my hand and see his feelings, expressions, but had no choice other than waiting and seeing my tickets. Finally after a month I met my son and I can say that was the happiest moment of my life - the beginning of a great journey, a whole new adventure. It's hard to express those memorable feelings in words - all I can say that I was holding, hugging and looking at our little angel all day and stayed at my in-laws house for the first time, to be with him. The next day, we all came to our home and a month was about to pass, without me realizing. I had to say goodbye. But wait - I could not think of telling them goodbye, I cancelled my ticket and booked tickets for all of us on Tatkal to go to my workplace together.


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