Saturday, March 17, 2012
Selfish
Oscar Wilde was spot on with his definition of selfishness. “Selfishness is not
living as one wishes to live, it is asking others to live as one wishes to live.”
So how to justify a flying solo lifestyle choice to the knockers. There are obvious
parallels between choosing not to have children and choosing to live alone.
Uninvited life factors that determine both. So is choosing to live alone or not to have
children, selfish?
Both situations are the subject of barbed insults, innuendo and unsolicited advice.
The 1 + 1 = 2 relationship that chooses not to have children embraces an ‘it only takes
two to Tango’ approach.
True, if you haven’t been a Mum or Dad, you won’t have experienced the pleasures
and pitfalls of parenting. But maybe, just maybe, individuals who make this conscious
choice have no desire to embrace the motherhood/fatherhood role. While those who
choose to live alone don’t wish to have to share and care within the framework of
their own space.
Surely selfishness doesn’t enter into it; self-fulfilment does.
living as one wishes to live, it is asking others to live as one wishes to live.”
So how to justify a flying solo lifestyle choice to the knockers. There are obvious
parallels between choosing not to have children and choosing to live alone.
Uninvited life factors that determine both. So is choosing to live alone or not to have
children, selfish?
Both situations are the subject of barbed insults, innuendo and unsolicited advice.
The 1 + 1 = 2 relationship that chooses not to have children embraces an ‘it only takes
two to Tango’ approach.
True, if you haven’t been a Mum or Dad, you won’t have experienced the pleasures
and pitfalls of parenting. But maybe, just maybe, individuals who make this conscious
choice have no desire to embrace the motherhood/fatherhood role. While those who
choose to live alone don’t wish to have to share and care within the framework of
their own space.
Surely selfishness doesn’t enter into it; self-fulfilment does.
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