On Wanting a Child: Deciding not to Decide
'To have a kid or not to have a kid, that is the question.' If Shakespeare had been a woman, perhaps we could have read such a quotation in his works. But, he wasn't and I'm pretty sure that was one of the last things he would have thought of talking about in his writings. Instead, our girl Jane Austen took the matter in her own hands when she wrote to her niece; "[...] by not beginning the business of mothering quite so early in life, you will be young in constitution, spirits, figure and countenance, while Mrs. Wm. Hammond is growing old by confinements and nursing ." We get it Jane, you had better things to do than spending your most precious years taking care of Mr. Darcy's babies. Who wants to be in their thirties and watching thier girlies getting married, pregnant and then, divorced? For the past few months, I've been forced to answer the same questions over and over. As I entered my thirties, it seems like everyone close to me had received an i...