On Babies

Babies!!!! Those cute little sweet little blobs of mass we once were.
I , though, just fail to see their apparent cuteness. Maybe i'm just not one of those women who goes soooooooooo cuuuuuute when i see the blob, but then thats me.

Its not that i'm against procreation; the process sure is fun. Its just that when i think babies i think nine months of a bloated body, numerous trips to the doctors, the inability to wear decent clothes and not to forget the never ending waiting for labour to be over.

If you thought labour was the worst part of it all, think again. You have sleepless nights of nappy changing or feeding to follow.... and they call them 'bundles of joy'
I recently heard a mother who'd recently acquired one such bundle say she had wanted to adopt. The reaction she got had me stumped.

The room goes silent for a split second. Apparently adopting babies is a risk!!!!! You see if the mother(more prominently emphasised)/father of the child had a 'bad character(sounds worse in hindi) it was genetically(assumed) passed down to the child. It doesn't matter that the child has not had any contact with her mother/father EVER.

What a huge risk it is really. As if going through childbirth isnt! The conversation also went to those women who were barren (very crudely put) but yes.

I really feel, looking after something that aint yours is an amazing thing to do.. and if that thing is a child then kudos to you cause kids are not easy things to bring up(look at how i turned out) . An additional thing is that they are readymade no labour no pain but you still encounter the joy of nurturing something..

And you talk about a higher purpose in life!!!!!!