Welcome to How to be Unprepared, a newsletter for new dads, about becoming and being a father.
It’s about all the “What the Fucks” and “Fucking hells” and “Hell yeahs” that I have been and am still going through on my journey to and through fatherhood.
Am I an expert in fatherhood? No. But writing about my experience will, selfishly, help me wrap my head around it. I’ll be a dad in a couple of weeks. (Or have I already started being a dad?) And the last couple of months have been quite a ride. You might be on that ride, too. Or about to embark on it. (Or know someone who is, then please share this.)
How to be Unprepared is about sharing what I’m going through and what I’m learning – or not learning. It’s about the feeling of being constantly unprepared for what’s happening now and what might happen next. The feeling that you’ve got it, you figured it out – just before you’re losing it, because you didn’t. It’s about the expectations and the experiences, the two-steps-forward-one-step-backs.
I hope that sharing this here helps others prepare for all the things you just can’t prepare for: the excitement, the anxieties, the euphoria, the worries. Or that it just might make you laugh, because the jokes are probably on me.
If you want to share your experience, write me.
If you have a specific question or suggestion for a topic, reach out.
And if you’re just here for the show, then sign up, lean back – and (try to) get ready.
See you in the first issue.