It's not. Not anymore. It's just late now. And the day has passed. You just wait for it and wonder every month "Did it start with a Sunday? Will the 13th be on a Friday?". It happens once or twice a year. And now it just did. And I didn't even do anything. Almost didn't even think about it. Nothing bad happened. That I remember. I just posted a post that looked weird.
The next Friday 13th is... January. Man.. that's a long time.. Eight months. You almost have time to have a kid before the next Friday 13th. Today I read about how the brain develops before you are born. Did you know that when the egg...cell...embryo thing gets attached to the uterine lining, it doesn't just get attached, but it actually starts to grow inwards, in a way. Its cells grows into the mother's body, it's not just something that grows inside a woman and is attached through the umbilical cord, but the cells actually grow from the uterus and into the body of the mother. There was a picture. I'm never having children.
It's a much more natural process than say...
ReplyDeleteHaving your skeleton start off as a plastic mould somewhere in the United States, having your muscles crafted from unique myomer tissue, and then having every organ meticulously cloned and optimized for an ample lifetime. Such is the stuff of nightmares, and the future of our species.
I can't wait to hear someone say that their mother is a cloning vat and their father is a robotic arm.
That is what is nature. So why fight it?
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well, yeah, and sure, but you're both guys. you don't have to have a critter growing inside of you, attaching itself to your insides...
ReplyDeleteI'm not trying to fight it. just avoid it.
You make it sound like a child is some exotic strain of influenza.
ReplyDeleteI wouldn't want kids for a different reason. Having them is one thing. Raising them is like the pain of childbirth, extended across the rest of one's miserable existence.
My thoughts exactly. The giving birth and all is, like my mum said, just a few hours of pain. Although the picture in the book was freaky..
ReplyDeleteKids are cute. Some kids are cool. They're fun to be around cuz you get to play all the time and you can be your goofy self, they don't care.
But they're gonna be around for THE REST OF YOUR LIFE! A huuuge part of your life is over and you'll have these little people around and you'll never get to be alone for a second.
Then they grow into teenagers and young adults like ourselves and they think of you as this person who just wants to have lots of rules and make their lives miserable.
This is actually the first time I've claimed not to want kids cuz they'll be growing inside of me.
I like kids. A family would be nice and all. But it really does make me feel claustrophobic just thinking about it.
*deep breaths*
I would be worried that if I had a kid, he'd be a little terror. The cool kids, like the cool people, are always the minority. I wouldn't be able to live, let alone sleep at night, knowing I had sired some little monster who would grow up to be a mentally immature and petulant father, who would eventually have kids of his own.
ReplyDeleteHey, you changed your picture.
ReplyDeleteActually, "cool kids" are not the same as "cool people". A cool kid is... to me it's a kid that doesn't cry all the time. A kid that doesn't hang around his or her mother all the time. A kid that likes to play. Which basically includes most kids.
If you get to know a kid, you'll see that he or she is really cool. If you get to know cool people, you'll see that he or she is just a kid. Well, sometimes anyway.
And if you're worried about raising some little monster you just need to find a girl who can control you and then your kid. I can't say I would worry about that, of course any kid can go balistic from time to time but I'll have manners imprinted on their foreheads before they're old enough to walk. If you can't be polite you can go play on your own.
That applies to grown ups too; remember your pleases and thank you's.
If everything changed today and men had children instead of women, then the this generation would be the last one.
ReplyDeleteHave kids because it's an adventure? You climb mountains or ski down one, you sail across an ocean, go parachute jumping or diving because it's an adventure. You don't bring a child into this world to prove your sense of adventure.
At least I won't.
Childbirth is hardly an adventure. If it was an adventure, I don't think they'd need painkillers and C-sections.
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