Chapter 27: BILLY IS NOT OKAY

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BILL KAULITZ


...five months later


It was surreal. The birth was utterly life-changing, amazing, incredible, exhausting, emotional, and chaotic. I don't know which one came first or in what order, but these are the feelings I remember best.

I still remember the first time I saw my children, I was overwhelmed with emotions. It was cathartic and yet so enthralling. It's a moment that's difficult to comprehend or even describe adequately. The birth of your child, in my case children, - holding those new little beings for the first time.

I know people always tell you it was the happiest moment in their life and in hindsight it probably was, but the moment itself really just felt surreal. I couldn't believe they were finally here and that they were "mine". The fact that I was now their father, was just too big to grasp at that moment, but I did feel this overwhelming feeling of responsibility for these tiny replicas of myself. Everything I did from now on would affect, either in small or great measure, the children that I just brought into the world. It made me feel mature and capable. In short, I had never before felt so grown up. I no longer could be happy-go-lucky Bill okay to make mistakes. I had two beings who needed me now.

I remember seeing both of their tiny faces next to one another and their grey eyes looking straight into mine, whispering "hello", and me thinking "I can't believe they are actually HERE". I remember having my first father chest-to-chest interaction in the hospital - my brand new babies on each side of my chest and all I could think was "Oh, there you guys are!" It wasn't like I was looking at little strangers I had never seen before. It was as if they looked exactly the way I knew they would look, even though I had no conscious thought of how they would turn out. They were instantly familiar, like I was gazing into the faces I had known my whole life and I loved them. A deep, unconditional love. The feelings of love overpower you and you realize in an instant that life is worth it! It's been just sheer human emotion. I've come completely outside of myself and truly humbled. Here were two little men that would shape my life more than I could possibly hope to shape theirs. I still plan on learning more from them than I could ever hope to teach them. Life is beautiful and every single day with them is the best of what we call life.


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