Dear Godchild,
You are the light of my life, and the closest thing that I have to a legacy at this point in my life. Your parents chose me to watch over you spiritually and emotionally, and to teach you all that they cannot. Nothing compares to the love I have for you, and when you smile and say I love you, it makes all the diapers I have changed and the tantrums I have calmed worth it. I can't wait to have a child of my own and for you to be able to call them your very own godchild, so you can truly understand the fierce sense of protection and love that I have for you. You have my heart no matter how old you get, how sick you are of me, or how far we away we are from each other.
Despite the fulfillment I have from being your godparent, I am scared. I am scared for your first heartbreak, your first failing test grade, your first skinned knee, the first time you see the darkness that is in the world and I am scared that I cannot help you deal with any of those things. However, the thing that keeps me going some days is the idea that you still have so much light in this world to see. You still get to experience love, travel, finding your friends that will last forever, and I cannot wait to see the world unfold in front of you. There is nothing that you can't do. When you struggle, you can always turn to your parents for help, and when they don't cut it for talking about things like crushes at school and weird sex questions, I will be waiting with baited breath to answer your questions.
I never understood love until you were born. For the first time, I had someone that I could lead through the world and felt tied to something bigger than myself. A lot of people don't take the responsibility of being a godparent very seriously, but I think about you every day. I think about how I can help you be a better person and how to support you when you can't support yourself. That is what my godmother did for me, and that is what I so desperately want to be able to do for you. Someday, you will need to be able to calculate a tip (and know that tipping is vital, and you should always tip 20 percent unless the service is truly awful) and you will need to know when someone is taking advantage of you, and you will need to know not to take advantage of people. You need to know so many things and it comforts me to know that I lived through so many things, the good and bad, perhaps to simply be able to give you some of the knowledge I have gained.
I love you a million times over, and I can't wait for you to see the world for all that it is. I will be here for you whenever you need me. And I will probably be there for you when you don't need me, or want me. Just be cool about it, let me be your overly loving godparent. I love you.
Love,
Your Godparent
