What about children?

I'm not definitely sure, but I'm leaning towards no for several reasons.

Kids obviously don't turn out to be perfectly the way you would like them to. I'd love my kid to be a more outgoing version of me with everything else being the same, but my kid could end up liking rap music or sports and stuff like that. It'd be less neat if I couldn't relate to them with the things that they liked to do.

When I look at how much of my parents' money I've unwittingly wasted (I never asked for money from them in my life too), I see that I'm a gigantic lifelong expense. Glasses every year, school every year, birthdays, holidays, trips, eating out, entertainment, etc.

Teens might become hormonal, secretive, and irritant to interact with and I don't know if I could constantly be the type to keep my cool about that and hope for the best.

I want to do everything differently from my parents. I don't want to be overprotective, or do any of the other things that I hate having done to me. Unfortunately, I think I've accepted the adage that you will come to be like your parents in the future, whether you like it or not.


I guess most of the above arguments are negated by the unconditional love you will have for your children, but right now, I'm too young to be picturing that kind of love.

Jam it back in, in the dark.