The friend I saw yesterday is pregnant with twins. It's so strange to be getting old enough to see this. I'm extremely excited to meet these boys, though.
Yeah, my friend is going out with someone who is pregnant. She'll be giving her child a Star Wars themed room, no matter what sex it is. And all I can think is, "How is this possible? When did our bodies become capable of bearing children when we were just children ourselves a few years ago?"
Our bodies were capable of bearing children sense we first starting menstruating.
And honestly, popping out babies doesn't make you "grown up." It's being able to handle a career, take care of your kids, and not be a deadbeat parent. Yuko = grown up. Spoiled kids that push their children on their parents so they can party = not grown up.
Oh, and AC -- IDK about you, but I hope that I never have to get used to teenagers/young adults getting pregnant. It's sad that yes, there's an uproar of young human pregnancies, but I hope that as our generation understands the difficulty of parenthood that they gradually start keeping it in their pants and start wrapping it until they're old enough to take responsibility for their actions, because accidents do happen and if you're old enough/mature enough for sex, then you better be old enough/mature enough to take care of a baby, should it result.
That's just my view in a nutshell of teen/young adult pregnancy in general. :3
Marcella -- I still can't see B being a mother, btw; she never came off as that type when we went to church together, but I know she's got the compassion and heart for it. <3 It's just going to be weird seeing her pregnant... and then with two sons. It was only yesterday we were making fun of the rest of our class in Sunday School... Damn, years fly by, I guess.
And AC, I hope I didn't come off as a offensive. My first few sentences were just factual things that sadden me, because from being (as young as 9!) forward, women have the ability to bring life into the world, and some should not ever, ever, ever, ever breed.
And what I meant about being "grown up" -- I said it because there are so many people that think that having a baby changes who they are and that they are entitled to respect because they are "grown up". It doesn't work like that and it's sad that 16 year old mothers think otherwise.
Pretty much, I wasn't trying to offend you, or Marcella, I'm just on the breaking point of hearing about people my age/younger poppin' out babies that they didn't plan for and I may never get the ability/chance to when I am ready for a kid. It's not envy, but it's anger at the fact that people don't appreciate/plan for the gifts that life bears upon them.
I know what you mean about the difference between being "grown up" (and being mature to handle it) versus just being old enough to do so. I guess I just find it so weird because it takes me a while to realise how old people are; occasionally I still feel like I am twelve years old or so, and I forget that people change within such short timespans. I keep thinking, "Perhaps X will change her mind! She hated that when she was fourteen!" and then it's suddenly like you're staring at a different person, and you don't know what happened.
I'm not sure I will ever get used to seeing people our age pregnant. Not even in my twenties, haha.
ReplyDeleteYeah. So strange... like growing up or something.
ReplyDeleteYeah, my friend is going out with someone who is pregnant. She'll be giving her child a Star Wars themed room, no matter what sex it is. And all I can think is, "How is this possible? When did our bodies become capable of bearing children when we were just children ourselves a few years ago?"
ReplyDeleteNature confuses me, haha.
Our bodies were capable of bearing children sense we first starting menstruating.
ReplyDeleteAnd honestly, popping out babies doesn't make you "grown up." It's being able to handle a career, take care of your kids, and not be a deadbeat parent. Yuko = grown up. Spoiled kids that push their children on their parents so they can party = not grown up.
Oh, and AC -- IDK about you, but I hope that I never have to get used to teenagers/young adults getting pregnant. It's sad that yes, there's an uproar of young human pregnancies, but I hope that as our generation understands the difficulty of parenthood that they gradually start keeping it in their pants and start wrapping it until they're old enough to take responsibility for their actions, because accidents do happen and if you're old enough/mature enough for sex, then you better be old enough/mature enough to take care of a baby, should it result.
That's just my view in a nutshell of teen/young adult pregnancy in general. :3
Marcella -- I still can't see B being a mother, btw; she never came off as that type when we went to church together, but I know she's got the compassion and heart for it. <3 It's just going to be weird seeing her pregnant... and then with two sons. It was only yesterday we were making fun of the rest of our class in Sunday School... Damn, years fly by, I guess.
Shit. First sentence, should have been "since". I'm tired. D:
ReplyDeleteAnd AC, I hope I didn't come off as a offensive. My first few sentences were just factual things that sadden me, because from being (as young as 9!) forward, women have the ability to bring life into the world, and some should not ever, ever, ever, ever breed.
ReplyDeleteAnd what I meant about being "grown up" -- I said it because there are so many people that think that having a baby changes who they are and that they are entitled to respect because they are "grown up". It doesn't work like that and it's sad that 16 year old mothers think otherwise.
Pretty much, I wasn't trying to offend you, or Marcella, I'm just on the breaking point of hearing about people my age/younger poppin' out babies that they didn't plan for and I may never get the ability/chance to when I am ready for a kid. It's not envy, but it's anger at the fact that people don't appreciate/plan for the gifts that life bears upon them.
I know what you mean about the difference between being "grown up" (and being mature to handle it) versus just being old enough to do so. I guess I just find it so weird because it takes me a while to realise how old people are; occasionally I still feel like I am twelve years old or so, and I forget that people change within such short timespans. I keep thinking, "Perhaps X will change her mind! She hated that when she was fourteen!" and then it's suddenly like you're staring at a different person, and you don't know what happened.
ReplyDeleteI'm just really bad at growing up, haha.
IDK, I've always hated being a kid, hell, I'm still a teen until next Saturday and I hate it. :/
ReplyDeleteI'm bad at growing up, too, Alex. :/
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