Don’t feel worthy? Why not have a baby.

So 17 girls got themselves pregnant over the past year in Massachusetts apparently in some pact. Ooh, the ignorance. Children are FOREVER. Not just someone cute you get to put little clothes on. Did any of them realize babies actually GROW UP? They are not some temporary fix for their feeling inadequate or unloved. They don’t just go away when you’re too tired to deal with them. You have to RAISE them. And my fear is how well is that raising going to be if they were barely raised themselves? And who decides to get pregnant off a PACT. Are you kidding? I remember being in high school and not being stupid. Have we raised our children to just follow what everyone else does without any thoughts to the implications. I mean, were they never told the whole, “If your friend jumps off a bridge…” COME ON! These little ignorant girls are now going to what??? Let their parents raise their kids when they get sick of dress up? What values will they teach these poor innocent babies who have no choice as to having an ignorant parent? What environment? Was the baby’s life given even the slightest consideration in this pact? A baby shouldn’t have to have the responsibility to make their parent feel worthy, because the parents couldn’t do it for themselves. They should just be loved. The whole thing just seems pretty damn selfish and idiotic. Makes me want to smack each of these girls up the side of their head.

Purgatory

“I feel like I’m in Purgatory.” That’s what a friend likened our “situation” to. That situation being single, in our late twenties, no kids, with careers, saving laundry for Saturday nights, cooking meals for only us which we end up eating for the next few days, staying at work late because we have nothing to go home to, and contemplating getting a cat to help fight the boredom and loneliness, but then worrying if that will only cement a future of being “the crazy cat lady”. The only thing I could do was laugh and say, “Yeah, feels like that sometimes.”