What’s the point of spending your precious time and energy building this fantastic new monetary system, or this awesome communication system which will help preserve humanity’s privacy and freedom, if not enough of us are spending our precious time and energy producing and rearing the future generations which will get to benefit from your efforts?
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For millennials where I live, having kids - in a responsible way - is too expensive. A significant number of them struggle even with basic things, like affordable housing.
So much for progress and quality of life in the western world.
I am so glad that I became a mother. I love my children just the way they are. And through them, I have become a completely different person. There is hardly anything that makes you grow and develop as much as having children.
Still, in weak moments, I sometimes look wistfully at people my age without children who have so much more time and money to do the things they love. Among them are truly wonderful people who invest their time and energy into other people’s children. This deserves appreciation as well and helps relieve parents in ways they urgently need 🤍
What are some of the ways you mentioned that people support other people’s children?
“affordable” housing WTF
There’s a few “affordable” housing buildings in my town.
Even bedbugs and cockroaches can afford to stay there free of charge.
On the one hand, in professional settings, especially in educational fields. When you are both a teacher and a mother, like I am, you often don’t have enough energy to give both your students and your own children the quality you want for them and that they deserve. Someone without children has more free capacity because they can recover better in their free time.
On the other hand, in private life, for example, by looking after the children of friends so that those parents can take a break. Or by doing activities with children that parents may not have the time or the skills for (music, crafts, etc.).
Reminds me of a cool quote I heard the other day on TV:
“I saw a cockroach so big it should be paying rent.” 😁
Before you know it they have grown and flown the nest and you then have the time to follow other passions.
Children need time, energy and love. A lot of the ‚stuff’ we think we need to shower them with is superfluous. But I hear you - I see in my own family how hard it is in today’s society for young parents to have the time and energy needed to dedicate to bringing up their offspring. And the sad thing is they don’t even question why, but have somehow been convinced that their career is more important. We are going to have one heck of a bitter and lonely generation of oldies in the not too distant future.
A lonely tattooed generation.
