The ground is shaking.... do you know where your children are?

Talk about a crazy week!  After living through the “Great Quake” on the east coast the other day some interesting things were put into perspective.  There is a great distance between parents and non-parents.  While I was watching the reactions from those around me there was an evident level of worry and concern from the fathers and mothers as they tried to reach their kids.  One person bolted from the office to check on them (he lives near-by) while others frantically dialed every phone they could get their hands on.  I want to talk for a bit about the guy who left to go check on his children.  I hope, that in the event that something like this were to happen, that I would be like this man.  His children were at home, and he could not reach them.  Amid the panic and fear stricken people that we work with he had the presence to make sure that we were all ok, make sure that someone had control on scene and then rushed home to his children.  I have heard some mild scoffs from others about this.  I pity them.  If I had know where my wife was, and if I could have been home as fast as he was able to make it, heck yeah I would have left.  I could not reach my darling wife for almost three hours after the quake due to her phone dying, and it took all that I had to hide my concern.  Granted, her and I have a similar feeling about this earthquake “when a real one hits, wake us up” but that comes from quite a few years of experience in California.  Yes, I tried to get a hold of most of my family in the area, there were many texts that went back and forth checking on each other.  Yes, there was a level of concern as I found how far spread this quake was.  Those things I will admit.  But I sincerely hope, and pray, that one day I can be like the father that I saw running out of the building to check on his kids, and those of you that read this and know who he is, pause for a moment and consider the extreme level of love and protection that he showed his children in that moment, and when you see him, perhaps you could say something.  That is just a thought.  I AM GOING TO BE A DAD, I am scared out of my mind, and I hope that I can run out of a building to be superman for my kids one day.