People without kids, whether you couldn’t or chose not to. How’s your life now?
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swirlie · 31-35
I made a conscious decision for my future when I embarked upon entrepreneurial business ownership at 19 years of age, that having children would not be a part of my chosen lifestyle, nor could it be.
I like kids, but I only like other people's kids. I travel a lot with my business and I stay in a lot of hotels and I meet with a lot of interesting business clients both male and female, but having to deal with children of my own would simply not fit into that mix and I've always known that.
To contribute something to society that does involve children, I volunteer one afternoon a week of my time to hang out with terminally ill teenagers who are spending their last days on this earth living in a hospital, where I share my life experiences with them and talk about life as well as the afterlife as we all imagine it to be. The reason I volunteer my time with them is because their own parents don't. I rest my case.
I have always had a great life even as a teenager when I thought life sucked when I couldn't get my own way. And today, I couldn't ask for anything that I didn't already have. Money, though sparse at one point in my journey when I first got started in business, is now a non-issue, though I consider myself to be a minimalist anyway which means I need even less than I thought I did!
There are those who were born to be natural parents and there are those who became parents who had absolutely no business raising children of their own.
The difference between the two is knowing which category you fit into and not lying to yourself that you could easily do the opposite journey just as easily...
There are too many parents on this earth who suck at being parents and I will admit that I'm probably one of them, though I will never know for sure, but at least I won't lie to myself and pretend otherwise in the meantime.
I like kids, but I only like other people's kids. I travel a lot with my business and I stay in a lot of hotels and I meet with a lot of interesting business clients both male and female, but having to deal with children of my own would simply not fit into that mix and I've always known that.
To contribute something to society that does involve children, I volunteer one afternoon a week of my time to hang out with terminally ill teenagers who are spending their last days on this earth living in a hospital, where I share my life experiences with them and talk about life as well as the afterlife as we all imagine it to be. The reason I volunteer my time with them is because their own parents don't. I rest my case.
I have always had a great life even as a teenager when I thought life sucked when I couldn't get my own way. And today, I couldn't ask for anything that I didn't already have. Money, though sparse at one point in my journey when I first got started in business, is now a non-issue, though I consider myself to be a minimalist anyway which means I need even less than I thought I did!
There are those who were born to be natural parents and there are those who became parents who had absolutely no business raising children of their own.
The difference between the two is knowing which category you fit into and not lying to yourself that you could easily do the opposite journey just as easily...
There are too many parents on this earth who suck at being parents and I will admit that I'm probably one of them, though I will never know for sure, but at least I won't lie to myself and pretend otherwise in the meantime.