the duality of personality

It's not like I woke up one day and decided to become a mother...

never once do I remember asking the almighty to

send me a baby that I can hold, teach, and cultivate into a decent human being...

Never once do I remember him/it asking permission to allow that one in a hundred times

occurrence to result in another life...

I didn't ask for the responsibility,

I wasn't ready for the sacrifice of self... of sleep...

I never wanted the diapers, late-night wake-ups, inconvenient interruptions of QT time...

But I've never been happier to rise to the challenge...