I just realized that when you're a parent, you don't start driving slower and more cautiously because you've suddenly become The Dork King (even though you may have for other reasons), but because the thought that existing one second and experiencing the joy of having children and then flashing out of life and never seeing them grow up or being with your kids again is too painful a thought to bear.
If there's anything I have control of that could kill me, I want to remove it, so I have AS LONG AS POSSIBLE to be with my wife and kids.
Maybe my perceptions are colored by losing my dad as a teenager, but I want to live to be 1,000 and beyond and see my children grow old and their children and so on...
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