Akiva's Blog

I walked by the student lounge in my school the other day and saw something that prompted me to go in and say something. There were approximately 9 kids in the room, and only two were sitting together. The rest were busy on their iPods, laptops, phones, etc., all sitting individually. I said something about it to the students, half-jokingly, and they replied that it was study hall.

As the weeks go by with Reia, I started thinking about how things are now and how ridiculously different they will be when Reia is a teenager.

So I’m sitting here in a motel in Barkeyville, PA, in the middle of nowhere on Route 80. Talia, Reia and I were on our way to NJ to visit my parents and siblings over my school break. Trouble is, we hit a snowstorm. Though we just bought snow tires last night, the snow got to be a bit too much and we decided to pull over.

I think it was Forrest Gump’s mom who said that you can tell a lot about a person by their shoes. I was thinking about this because an interesting thing happened which, for people who know me, fits right in with who I am as a person.

When I got married a little over 3½ years ago, I remember there was a time in the beginning of our marriage where I just could not believe it. Not in a bad way, by any means, but just that it was all just so surreal. It took a while for it to sink in that the woman I had been courting long-distance for 2+ years was now next to me when I get up every morning. Sure, I knew that I was married, and I knew that the woman that I had wanted to marry for so long was now my wife, but there was still this aspect to it like I was watching a movie of it happening to me and not experiencing it myself.

So there seems to be some sort of change coming over me now that my daughter is here (and over a week old). You know how when you’re watching or reading something and a woman is doing or saying something objectionable, and then someone who is with you (usually someone older) says, “Ugh…just think, that’s someone’s daughter.” Or they say, “Wow, she has parents. What do they think of this??” It could even go, “Doesn’t she have kids that are going to Google her someday? How could she do this???”