Give Me Three Good Reasons...
...And I still might tell you to go to hell if you did. "Three good reasons to what," you say? To have a second child. I'm not too keen on the idea myself, but most everyone around me says I should wait until Winter's at least two to decide for sure. They say I'll change my mind. I say bollocks. I have a big long list of reasons not to, much
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1 - A child is a miraculous event, lasting years and giving meaning to your own life. You are of the few that can see this already, and the appreciation would multiply accordingly, by my prediction.
(Counter - as appreciation would multiply, so does stress, work, drool, diapers, driving permits, and dating...!)
2 - A childhood growing up with a constant friend, foe, brother/sister, is a much different lifestyle than one of ... solitude? solice? ... of an only child at home. Home becomes the retreat for the child. Both can lead to socially active lifestyles, both can lead to reclusive ones. But my own recollections of growing up with a friend of nearly constant age for my childhood are fond, and I wouldn't wish it otherwise.
3 - Having a child offers a path for the future - one set with (nearly) uncompromisable borders. But instead of restricting (which I can see it would feel like at times) it offers instead a different set of branches, feelings, experiences, immortality. Life is generally good - children moreso. It wouldn't be a question of 'Is Winter enough?', it would be an entirely new algorithm.
Really - if the child is cherished, as I know they would be by you, then it would work out, and more. If you had ever thought that you were forced into the situation however, the possiblity for some subconscious resentment may ensue... Really, it is what you desire that matters, lass. Don't let anyone talk you into anything! Besides - you still be young, the daylight stretches before you!
Thanks for the music! Namaste -
Shadowbouquet
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Gives me some good perspective, thanks again.
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