Friday, October 24, 2003
"let us not look back in anger, nor forward in fear, but around in awareness"...
i have never understood people's obsession with having children. i've always had three theories: people are either so egotistical that they want to have a little version of themselves running around; they are compelled to demonstrate some sort of control over their lives in a world where the luck of the draw seems to dominate (and what is more controllable than the act of reproduction?); or they need to nuture a being that carries a guarantee to love them unconditionally, often seeking to fill a void they felt themselves in childhood.
upon considering the fact that most people contemplate adoption only a last resort if they are unable to conceive--as if providing a parentless child who already exists with a loving home is somehow inferior to creating your own, regardless of whether you have to spend hundreds of thousands of dollars in order to do it or what the impact the act has on the collective quality of life of all species on this earth--i have come to the conclusion that my people-are-selfish-unchecked-egomaniacs theory is the most accurate.
does anyone care about the state of the planet, or are we really moving toward an era where designer babies will reign despite any and all costs to the environment that we share with countless other species of life and whose sustainability we all rely on in order to live? are people aware of the overpopulation problem? if anyone is looking to parent a child, how about adopting a little girl in china doomed to life in an orphanage for having the impertinence to be born female? don't they deserve a chance?
i have never understood people's obsession with having children. i've always had three theories: people are either so egotistical that they want to have a little version of themselves running around; they are compelled to demonstrate some sort of control over their lives in a world where the luck of the draw seems to dominate (and what is more controllable than the act of reproduction?); or they need to nuture a being that carries a guarantee to love them unconditionally, often seeking to fill a void they felt themselves in childhood.
upon considering the fact that most people contemplate adoption only a last resort if they are unable to conceive--as if providing a parentless child who already exists with a loving home is somehow inferior to creating your own, regardless of whether you have to spend hundreds of thousands of dollars in order to do it or what the impact the act has on the collective quality of life of all species on this earth--i have come to the conclusion that my people-are-selfish-unchecked-egomaniacs theory is the most accurate.
does anyone care about the state of the planet, or are we really moving toward an era where designer babies will reign despite any and all costs to the environment that we share with countless other species of life and whose sustainability we all rely on in order to live? are people aware of the overpopulation problem? if anyone is looking to parent a child, how about adopting a little girl in china doomed to life in an orphanage for having the impertinence to be born female? don't they deserve a chance?
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