• kameecoding@programming.dev
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    1 year ago

    while I do not blame my parents, my experience does inform my decision regarding having children, I do not want to create a life that will become self-awareness and has to deal with the idea of inevitable death.

    I also recognize unlike my parents that I am not fit to be a parent, I’d even argue lots of people aren’t.

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      1 year ago

      To have children or not is a deeply personal choice ☺️

      And also personal is the search for meaning in ones own existence. While searching we create: life, art, relationships, meaning. Memes. I think life becomes a burden, when external factors keep you from creating the meaning that you care for.

      But speaking as a historian: we put a lot of presure on parents over the last decades. And the same presure on kids. It is relateable that having children or just excisting has become so… whats a fitting english word?.. not desireable?