When you think about it, isn't the idea of "growing up" and having kids depressing?

[Anonymous]

I still feel like a kid in a lot of ways.. and I thought I am the future? But now so many people my age are having them.. and it's like... okay, that's it? I don't know. It's just a depressing thought to me!

[NamerOfStars]

Having a child means forfeiting your place as the end product of evolution and becoming just another link in the chain.

Deciding NOT to have children means taking a chain that continues, unbroken, since the dawn of life itself, and ending it.

They're BOTH pretty depressing, to my mind.

[letuswaltzforthedead]

That's understandable, there's a lot of people who dont want kids because they think the world is a depressing and horrible place. Kids don't have to be the end-all-be-all of your life but if you don't want any, that's fine too.

I remember I had a feeling like that at 13 until I turned 15. I started planning my life around those ages.

[Apple1996]

Nah I was ready to grow up at like 12. Probably the reasons why I started having kids at 17 cuz I was over being a child

[Asker]

At 17? That’s a little extreme

[Apple1996]

Not really. Lots of people have babies when young

[Asker]

Kids should not be having kids

[Apple1996]

17 isn't a kid...

[Asker]

Well yes it legally is

[Apple1996]

It's really a teenager. Legally they can go get emancipated if they want to and legally be a adult

[exitseven]

Yes, I was definitely carried into adulthood kicking and screaming. Nobody resisted it more than me. In some ways I still think of myself as that 16 year old kid hitchhiking around new England.

[Asker]

Why were you hitchhiking? It wasn’t dangerous?

[exitseven]

This was the 80s. It was really a different planet.,

[exitseven]

Thanks for the MHO😎

[Guy13]

Nope. I’m very excited about the possibilities. That might just be me though.

[Kelly6]

no its excitment to me