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May. 28th, 2004 11:50 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
evergleamI'm not really interested in having children. The idea of being responsible for another human life terrifies me beyond belief. It's more than just the responsibility thing, though, being a parent means you are responsible for everything that does and does not happen to your child. You shape their personality, their eating habits, their interests. I don't know if I want to handle that kind of pressure.
But even more than that, I don't think I can handle worrying about things like this. How are you supposed to protect your children in a place where that kind of thing can happen completely arbitrarily? How is that woman supposed to continue living? Just thinking of what happened to those children makes me want to throw up. I stopped reading the news a few years ago because I couldn't deal with stories like this one. You have to desensitize yourself completely to be able to stomach the news anymore, but how can you do that when something so atrocious can happen to three little kids?
But even more than that, I don't think I can handle worrying about things like this. How are you supposed to protect your children in a place where that kind of thing can happen completely arbitrarily? How is that woman supposed to continue living? Just thinking of what happened to those children makes me want to throw up. I stopped reading the news a few years ago because I couldn't deal with stories like this one. You have to desensitize yourself completely to be able to stomach the news anymore, but how can you do that when something so atrocious can happen to three little kids?
