Today children are our top priority, tomorrow we are one of their priority

Today, children are our top priority. Tomorrow, we are one of their priorities.

This one line holds the bittersweet truth of parenthood and the passage of time. When our children are young, we revolve around their needs—feeding, nurturing, guiding, and loving them with all our heart. Our days and nights are planned around their comfort and happiness. They are our everything, our purpose, and our priority.

But as time flows, they grow. Their world slowly expands beyond us. School, friendships, careers, and their own families begin to shape their lives. The centre of their universe shifts, just like it did for us once. It doesn’t mean they stop loving us—it just means that we, who were once their whole world, now become a part of their world.

This transition can feel painful. It can feel like distance or neglect. But it is not rejection—it is life. The same way we chose our paths and built our lives, our children too must follow their own journeys. And in doing so, we learn to love them from a new space—not by holding on tightly, but by letting them fly freely while keeping the door of our hearts always open.

So let us give them our fullest today—with love, patience, and memories they’ll carry forever. And when tomorrow comes, let us accept our place gracefully, with pride in who they’ve become. Because even if we are no longer their first call every day, we’ll always be their first home in this world.