An interesting article
Sep. 23rd, 2009 08:59 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
twirlgrrlhttp://happydays.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/09/17/the-referendum/
I definitely think about the roads not taken but I don't do a lot of judgment, comparison or opinionating on my friends' choices. Also, I don't understand the pressure people seem to feel around the choice not to have children, nor the judgments passed on other people for having them. Having a kid because you're somehow "supposed" to is the last thing I'd recommend, and I don't think that not having kids is pitiable in the least (except, of course, if they were dearly wanted.) And on the other side, I listened to 20 minutes of venom from a bitter drunk in line at the airport yesterday about people who have kids--especially people who travel with them--and I was ready to stab him in the heart with a ballpoint pen. Why do people pass such harsh judgments on each other?
I definitely think about the roads not taken but I don't do a lot of judgment, comparison or opinionating on my friends' choices. Also, I don't understand the pressure people seem to feel around the choice not to have children, nor the judgments passed on other people for having them. Having a kid because you're somehow "supposed" to is the last thing I'd recommend, and I don't think that not having kids is pitiable in the least (except, of course, if they were dearly wanted.) And on the other side, I listened to 20 minutes of venom from a bitter drunk in line at the airport yesterday about people who have kids--especially people who travel with them--and I was ready to stab him in the heart with a ballpoint pen. Why do people pass such harsh judgments on each other?
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Date: 2009-09-23 10:38 pm (UTC)