Venting It Ends With Me...

[Broken_Biscuit]

I just had such a liberating and wonderful thought to myself, and quickly want to share it out aloud:

I have what I would class as really poor mental health; anxiety and depression and all the normal stuff that most of us here battle with. What I don't have is children (or the paternal desire to have children). What this means is that my mad and very fucked up mind ceases to exist and dies out with me - whenever that time may come.

What a brilliant thing I'm doing for humanity after generations of my family who have suffered before me. The pain stops the moment I die and a chain is broken. Freedom.

 

[Hollowman]

I can relate. It ends with me too. I'm so glad I didn't have kids, best decision ever.

 

[locked*n*loaded]

I guess it ends with me, too. Probably for the best.

 

[itwillhappensoon]

This resonates with me , I also don't want to have children for the possibility of them suffering like I did

 

[Message In A Bottle]

That's what I've always said. And it brings me immense joy knowing that my unborn children won't have to suffer in this reality.

Also I'd make for a terrible mother anyway, so I'm saving them from myself as well - Along with less than satisfactory genetics.

 

[dust-in-the-wind]

Ends with me too. So glad I won't be adding a new life to the human suffering.

 

[bankai]

Absolutely. The people in this thread warm the cockles of my heart. You are the best. Choosing to not have children is the very best thing that you can do!!!

I am also child free. No amount of guilt tripping from my parents and relatives could convince me otherwise.

 

[dearlydeparted44]

I just had such a liberating and wonderful thought to myself, and quickly want to share it out aloud:

I have what I would class as really poor mental health; anxiety and depression and all the normal stuff that most of us here battle with. What I don't have is children (or the paternal desire to have children). What this means is that my mad and very fucked up mind ceases to exist and dies out with me - whenever that time may come.

What a brilliant thing I'm doing for humanity after generations of my family who have suffered before me. The pain stops the moment I die and a chain is broken. Freedom.

I do agree with your sentiment. However, your post smacks of the common idea that if one is depressed and has anxiety, that individual is broken and not life itself. That the person is disordered and the world is fine and how a person should be. I'm not attacking you. I used to think this way. I've just always found this interesting. If someone isn't like the rest of the world, there must be something wrong with them and not life. That's an unfortunate way to think, in my mind.

However, I do agree with not having children.

 

[Broken_Biscuit]

Some cracking comments here, and I take all on board and it's nice to see I'm not the only person in the universe that feels this way. Yes, it's very anti-natalist to be this way - but in my mind, it's absolute clarity.

Dearlydeparted44 - love your response too. I think if I had the mental clarity to see things your way, I probably wouldn't feel about existing like I do. The proof for me is in the pudding: the cyclic struggles of my family before me, everyone of them suffering the way I and my siblings do. I hear you though.