For many years, I thought I didn’t want children. Then, at some point, I noticed that whenever I look up the Wikipedia page of a person from the past that I admire in some respect, I check whether they have any living descendants, and I’m a bit sad if they don’t.
This is not quite an inconsistency in values, but a sort of dissonance that made me do a bit of soul-searching to re-examine the reasons (I thought) I had for not wanting kids.
For many years, I thought I didn’t want children. Then, at some point, I noticed that whenever I look up the Wikipedia page of a person from the past that I admire in some respect, I check whether they have any living descendants, and I’m a bit sad if they don’t.
This is not quite an inconsistency in values, but a sort of dissonance that made me do a bit of soul-searching to re-examine the reasons (I thought) I had for not wanting kids.