Not having children and your outlook on life

[Susanann]

@msmith537

@Susanann

It sounds kinda a meaningless, pointless, lonely, directionless, empty life, and who the heck is going to get all your money and family heirlooms when a childless person dies? What was the point of having accumulated a fortune if no kids or grandkids are going to get it?
I can not imagine how pointless EVERYthing would seem.

So the reason I should have kids is so someone can keep my useless crap when I’m dead?

Life is only as meaningless, pointless, lonely, directionless, and empty as you make it. I know plenty of childless people who have fulfilling and interesting careers, lots of friends and tons of activities and interests. In many ways, their lives seem a lot more fullfilling than many married and child-full people who seem to have no life outside of raising their children. Unless you are independently wealthy, raising kids is a time consuming and expensive process.

I still stand by my original statement that for most people life is pointless without kids. On the other hand, I dont mean to imply that most people “*should *” have kids. Lots, if not most, parents are so poor or so incompetent or so dishonest or so selfish or so lazy or so dumb that I dont think they should have had kids.

In other words, its “ok” for your life to be pointless and meaningless, esp if you dont know what you are doing.