#selfishness?

[n-ightcore]

Your being around me is something I don't understand, but it's warm and admits the confusion. I like the scent of your house and how it clings the way the laughter does in the air when people are smiling and safe in it. I like the beer we drink and the drugs we take. I like the nervous feelings, I like how you make me wonder constantly. I love the questions you ask. I like how you have made me question so much. Im glad I helped you question some things. I like your sister and how she comes in drunk and happy. I like to watch you become fascinated in the ideas of cats and as much as anything I wish you'd become fascinated in the idea of me.

[redeyeology]

I need a yugioh arc VI rn

[peanutbuttersexual]

My worst trait is that I rarely apologise. I usually take advantage of the fact that people choose to forget the horrible things I do/say. And I should be sorry for the fact that I don't say sorry.

[slimedad]

observation: people are more interested in saying “me too” when you reach out to them for help than actually helping

[fishandtree]

To be happy, we must not be too concerned with others.

Albert Camus

[llamatastic-blog]

Apparently, those of us who are Childfree are selfish.

At least, according to this, we're selfish for not having children.

Yet the only benefit to having children that seems to be stated in the article, is that they will be around to look after you in your old age (even though that's not a guarantee):

"And what will become of those trim, fit and fat-free-yogurt loving folks when decrepitude inevitably creeps in; when they age, as we all inevitably do, and the children they chose not to have aren’t around to look after them?"

Surely having children for the purpose of having someone to look after you in your old age is... well, selfish? So, really, I don't think he has a right to call us selfish.

I won't deny that, though I am childfree both by choice and circumstance (choice came before circumstance), part of it is due to selfishness - I don't want to give up my life to raise a child. However, there are many reasons for having children that are just as selfish ("I want to pass on the family name" "I want to pass on my genes" "I want someone to look after me when I get old"), yet I very rarely see articles lambasting parents who choose to have children for these reasons. Because it'd be a shitty thing to do. So why are we constantly questioned and criticised?

Though I like this section:

"The childless couple lives in a vacuum,” she wrote. “They try to fill their lonely lives with dinner dates, theatre, golf, tennis, swimming, civic affairs and trips all over the world…."

I see no reason as to why filling my life with these activities is lonely. In fact, it sounds divine. As soon as cancer treatment's done and uni's over, sign me up!

Basically, what I want to say before my sleeping pills kick in:

Some people have children. Some people don't. Some people don't want to. Some people want to have children.

Why does it matter to the rest of us beyond economic issues? Why does it matter to the article writer that I won't have someone to take care of me when I'm old (and I'm going to stop there because that last sentence made my depressing cancer thoughts kick in)?

Stop policing other people's right to choose whether they reproduce at all, people.

[kideraxpride]

I find it strange...[mini rant.]

How I'm having to house someone in my room to play UMvC3.

Now, normally...I wouldn't have a problem with this at all. I don't mind sharing things.

But I have a problem with it because the person that wants to play is my nephew, who had the normal version of the game first and sold it while I was playing it because it pissed him off.

Okay, so you get rid of it without asking me do I want it or whatnot, because apparently I wasn't enjoying the gameplay of it, even though it was in my room almost all of the time after the first 2 weeks. Now I have to deal with you wanting to play my copy of Ultimate whenever you want to, now that you don't have a PS3 or the game.

I'm sorry, but is that wrong to anyone else or is it JUST me...?