</font><blockquote><div id="quote"><font class="small">Quote:</font>
Divaluscious said:

The implication is that society has evolved so that we don't have children at our optimal child-bearing age any longer (late teens / early 20s for women). So we develop alternatives ... which are only resolved once we reach the stage of procreation ourselves.

</div></font></blockquote><font class="post">

This makes it seem as though one can't resolve certain issues until she has children. Our society has evolved not only so that we don't have to have children at our child-bearing age, but we don't have to have children at all and we can still lead productive, fulfilling lives. I am 26 and have no plans for having children. I don't know if that will change at some point, but for now, there are things that are a lot more important to me.

</font><blockquote><div id="quote"><font class="small">Quote:</font>
but the anger at children is just not right ... maybe the anger comes from the biological urge to breed, that other people may divert into other channels (e.g. simulating child-like experiences as some of us have in the past ...).

</div></font></blockquote><font class="post">

I don't think that the anger is not right... if I'm feeling it, it's right to me. I just don't believe feelings can be right or wrong. It's not like I'm going around terrorizing little children, lol. I have something going on within me now and like I said... lately kids irritate the hell out of me as a result of that.

As far as the drug thing, I really can't comment because I never took drugs besides smoking pot a few times in high school. I actually have the ability to appreciate things on a very genuine level, sometimes like that of a child.... my husband laughs at me sometimes and says that when I go out somewhere sometimes I look like a little kid in a museum... a lot of it comes from spending so much time in a state of anxiety and/or depression-- spending so much time seeing dark that when I do see light and color, I can see it even brighter and more intense... to see things more open and beautifully.... sometimes with a childlike quality.... When you spend a lot of time in the absence of something.... and when whatever it is comes back into your life, even for just a little while... whether it's laughter, the ability to go out and look at art, to wander around the city, etc.... you can experience it so much more beautifully... and that's one of the reasons that I appreciate who I am with my intense, crazy moods... and while it would be nice to get better and a bit more stable, I would never want to change who I am.