If I should have a daughter,

Time	Content	Gesture(s)
00:00 → 00:03	If I should have a daughter,
00:03 → 00:05	instead of "Mom,"
00:05 → 00:08	she's gonna call me "Point B,"
00:08 → 00:11	because that way she knows that no matter what happens,
00:11 → 00:14	at least she can always find her way to me.
00:14 → 00:17	And I'm going to paint solar systems on the backs of her hands
00:17 → 00:20	so she has to learn the entire universe
00:20 → 00:23	before she can say, "Oh, I know that like the back of my hand."
00:23 → 00:25	And she's going to learn
00:25 → 00:28	that this life will hit you hard in the face,
00:28 → 00:31	wait for you to get back up just so it can kick you in the stomach.
00:31 → 00:33	But getting the wind knocked out of you
00:33 → 00:35	is the only way to remind your lungs
00:35 → 00:37	how much they like the taste of air.
00:37 → 00:39	There is hurt, here,
00:39 → 00:41	that cannot be fixed by Band-Aids or poetry.
00:41 → 00:43	So the first time she realizes
00:43 → 00:45	that Wonder Woman isn't coming,
00:45 → 00:47	I'll make sure she knows
00:47 → 00:49	she doesn't have to wear the cape all by herself
00:49 → 00:51	because no matter how wide you stretch your fingers,
00:51 → 00:53	your hands will always be too small
00:53 → 00:55	to catch all the pain you want to heal.
00:55 → 00:57	Believe me, I've tried.
00:57 → 00:59	"And, baby," I'll tell her,
00:59 → 01:01	don't keep your nose up in the air like that.
01:01 → 01:03	I know that trick; I've done it a million times.
01:03 → 01:05	You're just smelling for smoke
01:05 → 01:08	so you can follow the trail back to a burning house,
01:08 → 01:10	so you can find the boy who lost everything in the fire
01:10 → 01:12	to see if you can save him.
01:12 → 01:16	Or else find the boy who lit the fire in the first place,
01:16 → 01:18	to see if you can change him."
01:18 → 01:20	But I know she will anyway,
01:20 → 01:22	so instead I'll always keep an extra supply
01:22 → 01:24	of chocolate and rain boots nearby,
01:24 → 01:27	because there is no heartbreak that chocolate can't fix.
01:28 → 01:30	Okay, there's a few heartbreaks that chocolate can't fix.
01:30 → 01:32	But that's what the rain boots are for,
01:32 → 01:36	because rain will wash away everything, if you let it.
01:36 → 01:38	I want her to look at the world
01:38 → 01:40	through the underside of a glass-bottom boat,
01:40 → 01:42	to look through a microscope
01:42 → 01:44	at the galaxies that exist
01:44 → 01:46	on the pinpoint of a human mind,
01:46 → 01:48	because that's the way my mom taught me.
01:48 → 01:50	That there'll be days like this.
01:50 → 01:53	♫ There'll be days like this, my momma said. ♫
01:53 → 01:55	When you open your hands to catch
01:55 → 01:57	and wind up with only blisters and bruises;
01:57 → 02:00	when you step out of the phone booth and try to fly
02:00 → 02:02	and the very people you want to save
02:02 → 02:04	are the ones standing on your cape;
02:04 → 02:06	when your boots will fill with rain,
02:06 → 02:08	and you'll be up to your knees in disappointment.
02:08 → 02:11	And those are the very days you have all the more reason to say thank you.
02:11 → 02:13	Because there's nothing more beautiful
02:13 → 02:16	than the way the ocean refuses to stop kissing the shoreline,
02:16 → 02:19	no matter how many times it's sent away.
02:19 → 02:22	You will put the wind in winsome, lose some.
02:22 → 02:24	You will put the star
02:24 → 02:26	in starting over, and over.
02:26 → 02:29	And no matter how many land mines erupt in a minute,
02:29 → 02:31	be sure your mind lands
02:31 → 02:33	on the beauty of this funny place called life.
02:33 → 02:36	And yes, on a scale from one to over-trusting,
02:36 → 02:38	I am pretty damn naive.
02:38 → 02:41	But I want her to know that this world is made out of sugar.
02:41 → 02:43	It can crumble so easily,
02:43 → 02:46	but don't be afraid to stick your tongue out and taste it.
02:46 → 02:49	"Baby," I'll tell her, "remember, your momma is a worrier,
02:49 → 02:51	and your poppa is a warrior,
02:51 → 02:53	and you are the girl with small hands and big eyes
02:53 → 02:55	who never stops asking for more."
02:55 → 02:57	Remember that good things come in threes
02:57 → 02:59	and so do bad things.
02:59 → 03:01	And always apologize when you've done something wrong,
03:01 → 03:03	but don't you ever apologize
03:03 → 03:06	for the way your eyes refuse to stop shining.
03:06 → 03:09	Your voice is small, but don't ever stop singing.
03:09 → 03:11	And when they finally hand you heartache,
03:11 → 03:14	when they slip war and hatred under your door
03:14 → 03:16	and offer you handouts on street-corners
03:16 → 03:18	of cynicism and defeat,
03:18 → 03:23	you tell them that they really ought to meet your mother.
03:24 → 03:28	Thank you. Thank you.

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