I didn’t really want kids, but my wife did, so we compromised and had 6.
Jokes aside I found it super fulfilling, I had struggled a lot with depression and feeling like everything was pointless, but raising kids gives me a purpose and makes mudane stuff like work feel meaningful. I definitely get what the comic is talking about, it’s rough a lot of the time, but it was what I unexpectedly needed in my life.
Ugh, this makes me shudder. It just sounds like “I’ve eagerly embraced my role as part of a procreation machine”.
I guess it’s necessary that some people become parents, in order to keep humanity going. And, it’s better if those people are doing it willingly rather than reluctantly. But, it just sounds like evolution reached into your brain and turned off some critical faculties in order to make you a more effective procreator.
So is the issue here that they find purpose in giving a part of themselves to another? Why police where a person finds purpose, if this so happens to be where it is?
I didn’t really want kids, but my wife did, so we compromised and had 6.
Jokes aside I found it super fulfilling, I had struggled a lot with depression and feeling like everything was pointless, but raising kids gives me a purpose and makes mudane stuff like work feel meaningful. I definitely get what the comic is talking about, it’s rough a lot of the time, but it was what I unexpectedly needed in my life.
6???
Yep, 6. After you have several it’s kinda like “how much harder could it be to have another?”
That’s all I needed to hear :D
Ugh, this makes me shudder. It just sounds like “I’ve eagerly embraced my role as part of a procreation machine”.
I guess it’s necessary that some people become parents, in order to keep humanity going. And, it’s better if those people are doing it willingly rather than reluctantly. But, it just sounds like evolution reached into your brain and turned off some critical faculties in order to make you a more effective procreator.
So is the issue here that they find purpose in giving a part of themselves to another? Why police where a person finds purpose, if this so happens to be where it is?
The issue is that their brain appears to have been damaged by becoming a parent.
Why do you denigrate a happy and successful person?
I’m not denigrating them, just the brain damage that becoming a parent has done to them.