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One morning last week, I’ve noticed that my wife was walking around the house in unusual silence. I thought I might have upset her with something, but couldn’t really recall any transgression that would have made her mad. Then after a few minutes of this, she dropped a pregnancy test in front of me, with a “+” sign shown on the little display.

Looks like I’m going to be a father!

I knew that this could happen sooner or later, but only as an abstract thought; something that will happen sometime way ahead in the future, like your own death.

At that moment it became something tangible. A few days later I’ve noticed that I’m driving much more carefully, respecting the speed limit and whatnot. A few weeks ago I was contemplating doing ketamine with a friend of mine - now it sounds absurd.

It’s frightening how fast your subconscious changes your perspective practically overnight.



Ketamine, psilocybin, and therapy have all made me a much better father, FWIW.


I’m having trouble finding affordable therapy that will care about my usage of shrooms and to a lesser extent, weed, as part of making me better. In between full time work so paying full price for therapy out of pocket would be a bit much.


You should still do ketamine with your friend!


I second that. Life is absurd, and ketamine is quite safe if done properly.


Ah is it? Good to know. I have yet to try it and my friends are becoming parents.


Congratulations and good luck!




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