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and this is just scratching the surface, I can’t emphasize enough how much better life is with your own children who depend on you, it almost seems stupid now t
by luxuryballs 4y ago
and this is just scratching the surface, I can’t emphasize enough how much better life is with your own children who depend on you, it almost seems stupid now that it surprised me as much as it did, it’s not just better horizontally or vertically, it’s more like an exponential fractal, better in ways you couldn’t have possibly imagined, especially once they start demonstrating how soon they will be smarter than you
- dumbereveryday 4y ago[dead]
- laborcontract 4y agoI still have a lot to worry about in this world. I'm not set. But I have a child. It's easily the hardest thing I've ever had to do and, tonight, just before putting her to sleep (and now reading your comment), I had a similar thought. The experience of raising a child is not one you plot on the scale of how we'd rate our existing lived experiences. Life becomes so much more important in a totally orthogonal way. I cannot stand the cynicism about child rearing nowadays. Our generation chooses to believe that our worries are unique (they aren't). They think they know what raising a child is like because they too were once children, or know others with children. They have no clue. Again, parenting has been f*ing hard. If I could go back to my old life in a time machine, would I? Hell no.