Perhaps not. I'm 42 and I'm tend to think of my station in life as just being delayed by 15 years - I had to get over a rather crappy childhood and a protracted adolescence.
(That said, I'd admonish anyone your age that if you don't have children, have them now rather than a series of compensating house-pets for the rest of your life)
> (That said, I'd admonish anyone your age that if you don't have children, have them now rather than a series of compensating house-pets for the rest of your life)
I should give up my dreams in order to have kids ?
Two years ago, I had an idea ( that failed but that's not the point here ), I wanted to finish it so I simply walked into the office and quit.
I worked 6 months on my project, I didn't care about someone else, just me and my project.
I value your opinion and if you think that you should have kids, do it but for me, right now it would be like a prison.
Having children don't preclude following personal dreams - for my own situation - children enhanced my ability(and necessity) to discern if any potential dream was plausible, actionable, and worth the extra effort.
For example, I've given up trying to become a billionaire - my financial security is fine, so it would be regrettable to trade away going hiking with my family for extra money.
And as a practical matter, children are only horribly disruptive when very small - and they're quite fascinating as a source of entertainment in themselves.
But... here's the problem... biologically, female humans seem to be designed to have children easily up until about their mid-thirties (apparently longer if the specimen is fit and active.)
> And as a practical matter, children are only horribly disruptive when very small - and they're quite fascinating as a source of entertainment in themselves.
Is actually very insightful.
> But... here's the problem... biologically, female humans seem to be designed to have children easily up until about their mid-thirties (apparently longer if the specimen is fit and active.)
No one told us that we have to choose a female of our own age.
That's societies attempt to brainwash us.
While it looks quite disgusting when people are 20-30 years apart, 10 years is totally ok.
(That said, I'd admonish anyone your age that if you don't have children, have them now rather than a series of compensating house-pets for the rest of your life)