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Making stuff to distract myself from existential dread

Art: @graham-illustrations
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Partner's Pottery: @kp-pottery


I don't think I'll ever be a father in the literal sense. I personally think bringing a child into the world as I know it would be irresponsible for me, especially given the ways that the climate apocalypse is likely to continue to disrupt and worsen our future over my and its lifetime.

I recognize this is a cynical view of things, and it's not a view I project onto friends nor family. If having a kid gives you hope for the future, that's great! For me the idea of one doesn't.

I will very likely have pets in the future that I could be a father to. I'm also generally supportive of the ideas of found families, and maybe someday I could be a father-figure without literally being one. I could see myself adopting or fostering once I got into a comfortable enough position to be able to handle the added stress of caring for another human.

There's something more righteous for my internal beliefs in trying to help those who are already stuck here make positive change and/or survive, but it is distinctly different from creating a new being who will have to grapple with those issues.

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in reply to @graham's post:

This is a sentiment I see echoed around my group of mid twenties friends when we talk about having kids

The effects of having a generation where nobody is having kids definitely worries me but I also just look at it on an individual level and agree with all of these points