[daveT]

I am shocked that a parent (assuming you are nearer 30) would be on BBV4Life and attempt to post this there.

I never had a desire to be a parent. Perhaps I was not built with a paternal instinct, or it was ripped out of my when I was younger.

I am interested in your existential thinking. When I was 19, I thought a lot like that, but ten years later, I think: meh. Maybe that is part of the drive that pushes people toward parenthood.

I once read a quote that went like this:

Life makes a lot more sense when you have kids, and it is fun to try to make them.

That is very telling, and your post nails that home. I never understood it for me: now I understand it for other people.