On Children

A few weeks ago, a friend of mine asked me to e-mail my thoughts on “Why Have Children?” She is gathering opinions on why financially stable women choose to have children in an age of over-population, birth-control, and spiritual independence? Simply – when you don’t have to get married, have children according to your religion or have children to provide you free labor in the fields – why have them?

I have always wanted children. Either my own or adopting others – the method wasn’t as important to me as having them. And the reason is simple – to affect change. Change in myself, in my children and in those we touch. Children give you lightness, inspiration, humility, frustration, unconditional love, and most important to me – eternity. They ask us to be the best of ourselves as every single action, word spoken, hug given goes on and on and on as they in turn define their own actions, their own voice, their own love and give it to this world. And we watch this evolution of ourselves in themselves to other selves and hope that at some point we have made this world a better place.