to mother or not to mother
thoughts on not/deciding to have children
to mother or not to mother
The Seventh Wonder of the modern world is a human child, any child. I used to wonder about childhood and the evolution of our species. It seemed to me unparsimonious to keep expending all that energy on such a long period of vulnerability and defenselessness, with nothing to show for it, in biological terms, beyond the feckless, irresponsible pleas... See more
Lewis Thomas • Seven Wonders by Lewis Thomas
The feeling that comes with new life.
Hope.
Possibility.
A continuation of our forms. A way to outlast the constraints of our conscious time.
I understand better now why humans created certain arbitrary life goals. Getting married, having a kid, buying a house, retirement. All these things are “supposed to happen” at certain stages, in part because of biology. But surely they’ve also served to give us markers of time, to tell our brains that we’re aging even when we don’t feel it. I have
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