Enough already...If this post seems pointed, if I come across as argumentative or dare I say even pugnacious it is with good cause.
For 9 months my wife and I have endured the onslaught of
thoughts and comments that come with pregnancy...
"Just you wait"...
"You will see soon enough"
"Cloth diapers?"
"Making your own baby food"?
"Say goodbye to sleep"
"Life as you known it will change"
Really? So let me get
this straight, bringing another human being, that you created, that you are
responsible for, that knows nothing in its baby world but what you will teach
it, changes your life?
You don't say...
"What exactly did you think would occur when you
decided to have a child?
Was it similar to the life ending utterance of saying "I do" when you were married?
Did you think of these things at all, prior to the commitment
of actually doing them?
"Sounded like a good idea at the time"...
Now that I think about it, my life style has frequently come
under scrutiny because of my propensity to "go my own way".
Rest assured that this "philosophy on life",(as
flawed as it may be), will be a driving force in the upbringing of my son as
well.
Alas it is not all "Doom & Gloom".
There are small pockets of resistance, I have seen them with
my own eyes, I have passed them on the trail, I know some of them on a personal
level.
Families that aren't about the status quo, they rage against
the machine...
