Father/Brother Figure

Been a while. Happy Chinese New Year to my readers(If any)!! Recently I went over to my cousin's place for dinner. Had my grandaunt and her grandson (technically my long distance related cousin) went over as well. Before dinner the kiddo wanted to go swim for awhile so I brought him down and we played a while. Now we were done and we went back up to my cousin's home to have our dinner and played games on his Xbox. Once we were all done we took the bus back. At the bus stop the kiddo followed my every action,from leaning to the pole to rest to bending down to talk to my granny. I was quick about the story not because it's boring but because that's not the main point. Throughout the course of spending time with the kiddo,it made me feel something I've never felt before. It was a different kind of happiness. It wasn't just seeing a smile on a kid's face. It wasn't spending time with a kid I barely know,as the title says,I felt like a father/brother figure. Like, legit family love/emotion stuff. Like the kid really annoyed me by asking why this why that (as all kids do)  but I was never really annoyed. I saw the warm smile on his face and I knew that I put it there and that touched my heart(Being a tough guy that is saying something). I really really understood at that point in time was it's like to be a dad (albeit not it's entirety but a taste of it) and I gotta say,when that day comes,I dare say I'm ready. Sometimes things that you face now,obstacles and troubles and good and bad,they all eventually play a part in teaching you something. They teach you how to be better,they give you a taste of something that might happen in the future that will be an enlarged version and it's our part to take it seriously and put it to heart,to learn and change and be better.