the long bonds

Image via The Glow

“The most surprising thing about being a mother is what it does to your capacity to feel things. I thought that I was loving with all of my heart before, but now that I have a child I’ve discovered a whole new depth of love (for my baby, my husband, my parents). You also experience fear and sorrow in greater depth too. As morbid as it sounds, the hardest thing about being a mum is the sudden awareness of my and my baby’s mortality.” - Zoë Buckman via The Glow

Zoë read my mind here, and probably the mushy minds of most mamas out there. Motherhood, in other words, is somewhat of a superpower - with the birth of our babies, we are all at once born deeply intuited and deeply feeling beings. It’s a hard and deliriously warm feeling, one that’s with me often. And I wouldn’t change it for the world.