Everyone is Somebody's Baby

“There are a lot of things I wrote in the eighties that weren’t right,” he told me. “The big change was my having children. I know it’s a cliché, but once you have children you start to understand that everyone is somebody’s baby. It is an insiders-outsiders thing. You grow up and these people are characters on TV or video games or baseball cards— you don’t really think about the fact that these guys are humans and doing the best they can.”

– Bill James, Signal and the Noise

Have been spending some time with my <2 month old nephew.

• Seeing him makes me realize the following:
  • everyone was once a small baby in his/her parents arms, this includes your parents, your friends, your idols, the most powerful people in the world, the worst criminals…
  • much effort and dedication needed to raise a child to a grown-up.