Here’s a line from a song I perform (I changed the words to Willy Wonka’s “Pure Imagination”):

“If you want to live in Paradise, simply don’t have children”

This isn’t for everyone, but consider this: I don’t have children and have been able to do SO much more with my life than most people I know. Sure I don’t have that comfort of a family, but it’s clearly worth it

We all make choices where we want to focus our life. It just seems that so many people don’t know why they are making the choices that they made. I wasn’t interested in being married to a consumer clone creating additional consumer clone children and retiring to play golf or something or something equally boring and pointless, and making that my life’s biggest accomplishment. I’m not saying that all families and children are like that, but many are, and that was the only option available to me, other than living a fulfilling and fun life.

We all choose the life we live, too bad we don’t realize it until late in life.