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So I was in the car the other day, sitting in traffic, and I pondered what I was going to write about next. Should I wax philosophical about going to college vs. not, since it's back to school time? Should I ponder the deeper issues of using open-source software in a business? Should I talk about the GPL license vs. the BSD license and the merits of each, plus some ideas I've had about putting both to good use?

And then FortKnox got online on AIM and messaged me with "You still haven't written that journal entry about meeting me at the mall!" Because, you see, I had promised him that I would. And while I've put it off for 10 days, I can no longer resist...

So I met FortKnox.
At the mall.
In Cincinnati.
And, um, his kid was cute. Ran around the store like a mad terror, that kid did!

Tonight I went to the movies and I saw this woman holding a baby... and she couldn't have been any older than I was. In fact, I think she was younger than I was. The kid was probably a couple months old at most. Still, it scared the bejeezus out of me. Am I going to be one of those married-with-tons-of-kids people?!

And some voice inside my head says, "But FortKnox seems really happy to be married with a kid. He gets a total kick out of having that kid run wild around the mall. And it's totally cute the way he obviously adores his son."

It scares me to death. You! People! Stop getting married! We're still YOUNG, for chrissakes! We're too young to have kids! We're still having fun! Partying! Going to movies! Being single! Dating!

Right? Right?!

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The long-awaited "I met FortKnox at the mall" journal!

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  • Heh (Score:2)

    by ryanr ( 30917 ) *
    I was 20 when I had my first kid, and I've got 5 now. I guess you're asking the wrong person. :)
  • I lived 20-odd years of my adult life feeling 17. It wasn't until my early forties that I began to imagine that I could also be involved in adult activities like having children or a mortgage.

    I liked my inner teenager. I could say that his fade into the background was caused by my fading eyesight. I used to have hyper-acute vision, once I turned forty for some reason the light everywhere was not as good as it used to be for reading and my arms weren't long enough any more.

    But that's not really it.

    The first time I sort of noticed that the world was growing up around me was when professional football players began to be the same age I was.

    Then all my friends started getting married.

    Then all my friends started buying houses.

    Then all my friends started having kids.

    Then all my friends started getting divorces.

    Now all my friends are having trouble with the second spouse.

    Meanwhile I still regard taking care of my cat as a solemn burden that I must continually strive to be mature enough to live up to.
    • Stop living my life dammit! ;)

      • Thief! (Score:2)

        by Tet ( 2721 ) *
        Stop living my life dammit!

        Your life? That's my life being described right there! Except that there are 3 cats, not one. Soon to be 6 :-)

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      • I agree, Time is passing way too fast.... I'm 22 years old now and still feel 18...

        The last four years of my life have flown by and in less then three months I finish my Bachelor of Engineering in Software Engineering Degree (yay :).

        I took a year off before starting university because I felt I was not ready. Now four years later I'm in the same situation, I don't feel ready to leave university and enter the real world....

        Just have to take the leap of faith I guess...
  • If you wait until you are old to have your kids you will never be able to keep up with them, they will be little brats and grow up to be deliquents.

    Now I am 41, my son is 19 and in college on academic scholarships, has higher level clearances than me and is pretty self-sufficient financially.

    Have been dating ever since my seperation about 11 years ago and fun is just as fun at my age as it was when I was 20. The benefit? No bail money required :-)
  • ...Shimmin and I are getting married in 63 days. I'm 24, he's 25, but will be 26 by the time we get married. We both had some time to do what we needed to do before finding each other. I dated a lot of guys, was very wild, got my Econ degree, got a job, worked, bought a house, lived on my own and took care of myself. He dated some other people, got his Chem E degree, worked for a year, entered a 5 year PhD program, and he is currently starting his 3rd year of it.

    But getting married isn't scary if you m
  • I'm 26, and nowhere near having a serious relationship, let alone kids. Quite frankly, the whole subject scares me to death. Getting married brings about all sorts of responsibility issues and makes a lot of things more difficult (like traveling).

    The fact that 90% of my friends are married or will be in the next year doesn't help, either.

  • Yep... (Score:2)

    by Tet ( 2721 ) *
    We're still YOUNG, for chrissakes! We're too young to have kids! We're still having fun! Partying! Going to movies! Being single! Dating! Right? Right?!

    Right. Although perhaps I'm not the best person to be asking. I think I'm genetically wired wrong. Or at least differently to most other humans. I see children (especially babies), and I have none of the parental instinct that others seem to possess. I just don't feel it. At all. My parents are gushing over my newborn neice, and just don't seem to underst

  • We're still having fun! Partying! Going to movies! Being single! Dating! Right? Right?
    Umm... yeah. Haven't you been reading my journal? :-) I'm 25. I've had fun being single. I like that I have money and can spend it on what I want. However, I get more joy out of buying things for other people than I do for myself (of course, giving is one of my spiritual gifts*), so having a girlfriend to spend money on is nice. Plus, I want children, but I'd like to be married for a few years first to be able to s

  • It scares me to death. You! People! Stop getting married! We're still YOUNG, for chrissakes! We're too young to have kids! We're still having fun! Partying! Going to movies! Being single! Dating!

    What, you can't do this after being married and having children? :-)

    I'm kidding of course. Someone above made a good point which bears repeating. There is something to bed said of younger people having young children. So many people wait until their 30's now to have children. That is totally great, and I'm

  • ...in an effort to resist confronting the inevitability of Growing Up.

    Sometimes it works, and sometimes it doesn't.
  • Once you get over 30 having kids can be expensive as it can require medical science.

    Added to which you run the risk of being too old to be a useful parent/grandparent...like those sixty year-olds you see at high school graduations.

    The fertility industry is making money hand-over-fist at the expense of upper-middle class whites who decided to have babies long after their bodies were eagerly receptive to the practice. Check out the charts - after 32 a woman's chance of getting pregnant drops rapidly. My wife

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