A phrase I've heard all too often in the last few months. Next for what, you ask? To get pregnant! I scoff! Why does this offend me so much? Well let's see, I'm 23, unmarried, still in school, barely have enough for groceries, and quite frankly, I don't even know if I want children! For reasons unknown to me my friends seem to almost want me to get pregnant...in fact, they expect it!
I genuinely cannot figure this one out. I mean I am not sexually irresponsible, have never had a pregnancy scare, and have so much in life that I want to do...and procreating is N-O-T on my To Do List. It feels like instead of people encouraging me to continue to work on building a successful career and future for myself they're just waiting for me to "slip up." I say "slip up" in quotations because I think accidental pregnancy is ridiculous...unless you slipped and fell on some sperm getting pregnant was not an accident. By the age of 13 I'm pretty sure everyone knows that sex can lead to babies (among other things) so if you have sex and you don't wrap it up and take other necessary precautions the pregnancy was not accidental...unintentional? Possibly...but accidental...nuh uh.
I am a young African American woman who dreams of being a successful career woman, travelling with or without a significant other, and creating the best possible future I can for myself and any possible offspring (if I so choose). That's right...I HAVE A CHOICE! My choice is...no babies until my HUSBAND and I DECIDE that we are ready to stop being selfish of each other's time and want to share our love with a little one. Until that time, please get it out of your head that I am "next". My uterus is not McDonald's and I am not in line waiting to get something that I didn't order. FIN
About Me
- Au Naturale
- I'm 23 years old and a Graduate student at La Salle University. I am studying to be a marriage and family therapist and will be done in about a year and a half, assuming that i go to school year round. i am hoping to come to terms with my hair and end the war that has been going on for the last 23 years. will sisterlocks be the answer? we shall see! My installation date is 10/1/2008.
2 comments:
Go ahead girl, I hear ya!
we're all 'next' nichole. i guess when you have a significant other for a while, the natural progression is move in together then have a baby. I don't take it to be offensively, take it as a complement that someone thinks your smart enough and responsible enough to have a child and be ok...
then in the end prove them wrong by being the last one to have kids. That's what i'm doing LOL
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