Having kids, that is the only way my genes can live on. But even having step or adopted kids is preferable.
It just brings so much joy as nothing else.
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Those who truly know their own preference have no choice in the matter.
What do you mean by this?
having children sounds disgusting. every year that I'm still alive and I see more of my friends on Facebook posting their fat naked baby slobber garbage I am even more happy than before. fuck your cookie slobber food garbage bowling ball head fat screaming toothless idiot crap. do not ever come to my house. im blocking them all
Kids. The whole world is new and interesting to them and that is infectious.
I wish I could have a kid. But I'm a virgin at 35 without a job and still living with my mother. It ain't going to happen.
I'm not quite the same demographic as you, but I get it.
For me, it's simply not possible to have kids unless I adopted. And that ain't happening (adoption is a long, arduous, and expensive process and I'm only one person...wouldn't want to take that alone). I suppose technically my body might physically be able to produce kids...I haven't tried, but that's missing the point.
People sometimes ask me if I want kids and it's just such a silly question for someone like me. It's like asking if I had a mega mansion, how would I decorate the 7th bathroom? What I want is irrelevant because that's not at all in the realm of possibility.
I don't know if I would want kids or not. But since it's not possible, it's not worth dwelling over.
Me and my wife has kinda agreed to not have kids. But as life goes on you kind do want it. You don't want to be in your 50s and wish you had kids to spend time with.
So soon we are having our second. And yes, life is very different but honestly I wouldn't want it any other way.
'Steve and I were talking about children one time, and he said the problem with children is that they carry your heart with them. The exact phrase was, βItβs your heart running around outside your body.β'
-- Eric Schmidt, quoting Steve Jobs.
thanks for the quote
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