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Aug 22, 2017 · 1 min read

I don’t exactly get why you’d be worried about “accidentally encouraging others along your exact path.” Everyone makes their own decisions for their own reasons. And, after all, some people genuinely don’t want to have children. Someone could follow a path similar to yours and find at 33, “huh, I still don’t want/am not ready for kids; and may never.”

The point being that if you want something, you have to work for it. That’s all one needs to say. “Figure out what you want, then figure out a plan to get there.” Which means if the listener does want kids, like you, they have to, like you, recognize that and do whatever it is they need to do to achieve it. Hopefully, in my opinion, while knowing that one is never really ready nor ever qualified to have such power over another human being.

I grew up with an abusive alcoholic for a parent, so families give me the heebie jeebies. I’ll never have a child, and my regret over it is no more acute than it is over the fact that I only get to live once. There so many possibilities I will never have the chance to experience in my limited life, children are just one of them. For example, I’ll never know what it’s like to have decent parents and want children. I’ll never understand it in my whole life — that’s okay. “The privilege of a lifetime is being who you are.”

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