Why I Think Kids Are Important To Not Just Yourself, but also to the World
Yourself:
- They bring you joy. When life is going badly for you, sometimes all it takes is a smile, a hug, a look, a laugh, or to re-live your childhood with them in order to perk you up and realize how your problems are truly insignificant in the grand scheme of things.
- They are constant reminders that you created something really special that will be someone you can love and who will love you back for the rest of your life.
- They make sure your memories never die. Let’s face it. Not many of us are going to go down in the history books. What’s the use of learning, living, and all of the knowledge we acquire throughout the course of our lives if we can’t pass all of those skills and knowledge to someone else? It just seems like a wasted effort to me if what we learned in life isn’t shared with new life, and then they can build on that knowledge with their own.
- It ensures your biology never dies. Thousands and thousands of years of DNA mixing all came down to you. So why throw that away and let it "end" with you? Besides, every once in a while we're given a perk--perhaps ears, eyes, a nose...something that reminds us of ourselves that our children have which brings a smile to our faces and reminds us that we will live on long after we're gone.
- When you are old and gray, you will have someone to help take care of you, just as you helped take care of them when they were little.
The World:
While there is no doubt that the world has gone to hell in a handbasket, and yes, it is a scary thing introducing new life into this topsy-turvy world of ours, it may seem much easier to just say that not having children would be a much easier route. Perhaps easier, yes, but by not being part of the solution, we would actually be part of the problem. What I mean by that is, when people who WOULD have a better chance to make good parents and raise a respectful, beneficial, intelligent, positive child do not, then only those who make lousy parents and raise unruly, intolerant children will continue to breed, thereby leaving the world without any “goodness” to counteract the badness. Is there a guarantee that just because you’ll be a good parent that the child will turn out like you want it to? No. There are no guarantees in life other than the fact that we need air to breathe, food to eat, water to drink, warmth when cold, coolness when warm, that we need to sleep, go to the bathroom, and one day that we will die. But at least you give the world a CHANCE to better itself if you bring new life into this world and raise that life in a way you think would help it. All of this reminds me of the movie “Idiocracy.” Basically, it’s what happens when only the idiots breed and the world is left, in the future, to a bunch of morons. LOL. And, as much of a comedy as that movie was made out to be, in fact, it’s something I could easily see happening if we don’t get our priorities straight. Just something to think about.
