10 years ago:
Have you been selected to university?
6 years ago:
Where you working now?
5 years ago:
When are you getting married?
Now:
It’s time for a child now.
You’re passing your 30s now.
You better be building a house now.
Do you have your own car now?
STOP!!!!
Stop the indoctrination!
Stop creating a time line for my life.
Marry, raise a kid, build a house, buy a car & then what?
Die?
Yes i’m 30 now.
But,
I take life as it comes.
I want to raise kids one day.
I want to raise a thousand kids to be precise.
May be I want to build a children’s home
Be a mom to hundreds of kids who don’t have parents.
May be I want to adopt.
I often think of kids whose parents have suddenly died,
Or are incarcerated, or kids who are too bad for the society, who are in rehab.
What about all those unwanted kids?
May be I want to raise them.
May be I want to have 2 of my own, 3 dogs and one cat too.
So every time you ask me;
Why no kids?
I am dumbstruck
How am I gonna tell you all this,
Without you thinking I’m insane?
Ask me how I’m doing
Where I’m traveling
What books I’m reading
Which poetry I’m writing
Ask me to show you my drawings,
Ask About the Art I create,
About all the friends I have made,
Exciting stories I have to tell,
Love, marriage, kids,
Life doesn’t follow a set timeline.
It’s alright to be 30 and go on a first date,
When your friends are having their third child.
Some nights I like to read alone,
On the couch,
Without a crying child to disturb me.
And i’m telling you,
Right now,
Life is pretty great!!!!!