Having Kids....

As for kids, no one is ever ready for kids.  You just have them. I mean, if everyone waited to have kids until they felt ready, no one would ever have kids. People are under this grand illusion that they have to be at such and such a place in their lives before they have kids. You know, in my lifetime I've been at the top of the mountain and felt like I was trapped underneath it. Life fluctuates. You can be doing great and then lose your job, your house, etc. all in the same time frame, but it's the people in your family that keep you together and keep giving you inspiration to just get right back on that path of life. Because life is filled with good times and bad, you have to realize that you could have kids during a good time and it could STILL be followed by a bad, so because of that, when you want kids, just have them! Everything will all work out eventually as long as you keep getting back in the saddle of life.  Besides, we as an American society have things all wrong. We keep saying we want our kids to have what we didn't have, but since every generation keeps getting more and more spoiled and selfish, is that REALLY the thing we should be doing? Perhaps if we gave our kids less they would learn to be happy with what they had. Which means, in essence, that we wouldn't need to wait so long to have them. Just another way of looking at things.