Inevitability

When I fully realised that being happily pregnant  I inevitably had to give birth. It can be quite shocking.

Years later while visiting a professor in hospital I couldn't help remembering. I could tell that he was in a pretty bad state and shape.
"Do you know there was an experience I had, which was at once the best and the worst I ever had?" He laughed and replied doubtingly:"The best and the worst at once?!" "Yes", I grinned back, "It was giving birth to my daughter. It was horrible and at the same time I was so happy I could have died." We had another good laugh at it.