“If this is the life that makes me happy then why should this decision make me feel guilty?”
Before, during and after my studies I worked with children as a teacher and art therapist. I was always surrounded by them so I never felt the need to have any of my own. I lived a pretty independent life and the idea of creating a family felt liked it would be something that would hold my life back.
As years went by, and I saw how the world was evolving with the climate change, wars going on in different places, how life in general was becoming more and more complicated. I thought that it would really be selfish of me to bring another child into this world. I could never do this do another human being.
I was finally convinced that I would never want to have any children, and I was OK with my decision. Greece is a country that still has strong beliefs on the “great purpose” of a woman being to one day bear children into this world. For a while I felt like something might not be ok with me.
Why would I feel so appalled by the idea of having a child ? But then I thought, if this is the life that makes me happy then why should this decision make me feel guilty?
I’m now a few months before my 40th birthday. I live with my two dogs, I feel strong, independent and I know that I can count on my own strength to deal with anything in life.
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