I have always loved kids, and gotten along with them great. I was the person who would always become great friends with my friends' younger siblings, and play with them my friend was at the "too cool for little brother/sister" stage. I am the youngest in my family and thus never had any younger siblings, but I always wanted one.

I have very much patience with children and I always melt when I see a cute baby. I can spend an entire bus ride just making funny faces to a child. My friends don't understand this, some of them just find children annoying. They don't have the same feelings I do about this. Some of them are clear they don't want children, others just don't have that instinct kicking in yet, but are open to the idea if they want kids later on.

I am 24 now and even though I want kids, it's still something I see some time in the future, not now. I want to be in a steady relationship and with a steady job, so I guess I might be one of those women who wait until I'm around 30 - which doesn't really bother me, my parents were older when they got me (My dad was 41 and my mother 38) and it has been great having so mature, secure parents who had a stable life situation.

I want to have someone in my life whom I can raise from a baby to a responsible adult, whom I can guide. I want to be the best I can be and have children in my life, watching them grow into mature individuals, with all the mistakes and learning experiences on the way. I have always loved children but it's not until recently I started thinking of how it would impact my entire life, and how I would do my best to raise those children into adults, seeing them live their own lives.

So, I think if you don't really know if you want kids, you probably don't. But you have said you became "open to it" a while back, it's possible you just can't imagine your life with kids. I don't believe that "everyone wants kids, they just don't know it" - it's not true, it's something society teaches us to think, but the simple truth is not everyone wants children. Not everyone should have children, either. It's a big decision and you have to be ready for it: The diapers and sleepless nights, the childhood fights, the rebellious teenage years, the drunkenness and inappropriateness, the economic irresponsibility, all the fights that will inevitably happen as you do your best to help your child make the right choices at the times when they are too immature to understand they're not always right - you have to think through if you are ready, you have to be prepared that your child will make mistakes, get into fights, lose friends, sleep around, skip school, potentially even commit crimes - and you have to know how to deal with it all. In other words, your child will be an individual who is in no ways flawless, and who might disappoint you or make you so incredibly tired and mad. I think a lot of people don't think this through before having children. I am still young and probably my matureness when it comes to this will also change over time, I do not think I am mature enough to have a child. I am still in a part of my life where I like to get drunk with my friends, spend a whole weekend binge watching Netflix, flirt with strangers and spontaneously book a vacation somewhere. I have just finished studying and will now start working full-time, which will probably alter my priorities a bit, and this is a step on the way to becoming mature enough to be a mother. It's a journey and not something I take on easily.