1758Life is too long

[evile]

25 Nov. 6:24 pm

 

 

I should be dead of old age or childbirth by now. I think that's a
major reason why women my age suddenly "MUST" have babies.

posted in LJ childfree community (the question was: are there any
GOOD reasons to have kids?):

An alternative to mid-life suicide
bramblekite
2003-11-24 12:09

You get to be about 30, you realize that this is *it*. You are pretty
much done. You've experienced everything for the first time and the
rest of your life is gonna be reruns and variations of that. The rest
of your existence is killing time until time kills you.

You realize you're never gonna be a superstar, a published writer, a
famous dancer, a rock star, a millionaire, and/or weigh the same or
look as good as you did when you were 17.

so you say: "Hmm...do I kill myself, or do I give myself something
new and completely time/ego/$-consuming by spawning?"

*shrug* Okay, not really a 'logical' reason, but certainly the only
possible 'good' reason I can see for having a baby. (Assuming you
think suicide is bad/sinful/etc.)

Posted in BRATS!:


I just had a major Epiphany:

Having babies is the ultimate admission of failure.

You get to a point in life where you realize you're never going to be
Harrison Ford, Britney Spears, Cher, Madonna, Bill Gates, President
of the US, or whatever. You realize you will never be as talented,
beautiful, thin, popular, powerful, rich, or famous as you wanted to
be.

So you spawn and pass off all the pressure to succeed on to another
generation and settle into obese, flatulent, mature mediocrity. And
then you paint all your faded, failed ambitions with the martyred
brush of "I wanted to write a novel, but there just wasn't time after
Mistayke was born" and "Oh, I wanted to go to art school, but then
Junior came along and now he's going to be the artist in the family,"
or whatever.

Kinda makes you realize exactly what's going on in the heads of all
those sicko stage moms we saw on "American Idol Junior", doesn't it?