Malia, happy birthday to you. Such a fine young woman.
I have been a kind of looking over your dad’s shoulders when he was president and after.
So I have witnessed the profound love he has had for you all of those years. He never missed a dinner when he was president, he prioritized you over everything else.
When you are a parent, you really start to understand the value of life. The constant worry, the priority.
They say that nothing lives forever, yet there is in one thing we humans live for eternity, that is in our children.
They are there and they get children.
In that way, that is the only thing that really makes sense in the long run.
The love we have for our children is like a promise for their children as well, and their children and endlessly in this chain of human existence.
So, happy birthday Malia, and may your days be as full of existence and meaning, as you yourself have made for others.
G-d bless the will to be something for those you truly love.
