Signs of the Times
Anyone been spending time looking around at all your friends and maybe getting a little jealous of decisions they made and you skipped? Like Michael Jackson used to say… You are not alone.
Nick Baily – my brother and occasional contributor to POPTEN sent this to me last night… super timely and funny post from the NY Times blog “Happy Days”
Money quote, courtesy of Victor:
Most of my married friends now have children, the rewards of which appear to be exclusively intangible and, like the mysteries of some gnostic sect, incommunicable to outsiders. In fact it seems from the outside as if these people have joined a dubious cult: they claim to be much happier and more fulfilled than ever before, even though they live in conditions of appalling filth and degradation, deprived of the most basic freedoms and dignity, and owe unquestioning obedience to a capricious and demented master.
And for the record – Vic is recently and very happily married and is planning on joining this dubious cult of children at some point in the future… wouldn’t want anyone to get the wrong idea…
