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Stop Telling Me I'll Change My Mind About Not Wanting Kids

"You say that now but you'll change your mind." No, I won't.

Alexis Gardner
Aug 20, 2017
Radford University
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Stop Telling Me I'll Change My Mind About Not Wanting Kids
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No. I won't.

So stop.

I don't want that standard life of getting married and having children. And let me be clear in saying there's nothing wrong with wanting that, It's just not something I want.

I desire something different in life.

I want to reach the highest level of success possible. I want to have an established flourishing career. I want to work because I love what I do and I want to do it all the time.

I want to live in New York City and be a free spirit who goes on an adventure every day. I want to go out and just walk around to see what new thing I can find.

And in theory, I'll be so successful and have accumulated a good amount of money, that I can start traveling the world. I don't want to be that person who's like, "I wish I would've traveled when I was in my 20s," or even 30s, 40s, 50s all the way until I die.

I know I can do all this with children if I wanted to, but that's the thing I don't want to.

I am an extremely goal oriented person and I know what I want/don't want so when I say I don't want children I mean it. And I don't need people telling me that I'm too young to understand or that once I'm older I'll change my mind because you're wrong and I won't.

I just have no desire in my life to ever have kids. It's just something that doesn't appeal to me in any way and I just don't want it. People talk about having baby fever, or not being able to wait until they have their own kids and that's something I've never been able to relate to.

You can call me selfish and I don't care but having children is expensive and I know that.

I really rather spend my money on something else, something that I actually want. And to me, I think it would be way worse if I brought a child into this world knowing I don't want him/her as opposed to doing the opposite.

I will acknowledge although that it could also be possible that God has other plans for me, and He wants me to have children.

And if that's what He wants for me then so be it. But until I see that sign from Him, I stand by everything I just said and I never want to have any children.

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