I didn’t know it at the time

 I didn’t know it at the time.

The first moment I held you.

The first time you looked at me with those curious, searching eyes.

The first time your tiny hand wrapped around my finger like you already knew I belonged to you.

I didn’t know that in that moment…

my heart would change forever.

You were the beginning of something I didn’t even have words for yet.

A kind of love that feels deeper than anything I had known before. A kind of love that doesn’t fade, doesn’t weaken, doesn’t ask for anything in return.

You were the one who showed me how far love could really go.

And watching you now—growing, learning, becoming your own person—it fills me with a kind of pride that’s hard to explain.

Because I don’t just see who you are.

I see every moment that brought you here.

And I carry all of them with me.

Always.

No matter how much time passes…
No matter how much you grow…

you will forever be the one who first taught my heart what this kind of love truly feels like.

And that…

is something that will stay with me for the rest of my life.