For me, realizing that I wanted to raise children when I was between 8 and 14 years old was pivotal for me in my path forward as an adult. It wasn't that I wanted to be married it was that I wanted to be a father and to raise children. Why?
Because I saw adults as incredibly boring people in the 1950s and watched many of them die very young at meaningless stupid jobs and had nothing to show for their lives when they died. So, there was this pathetic quality to people in the 1950s and I watched them self destruct and die like flies very often trying to be perfect which was of course impossible.
I looked around me and saw that a playful attitude towards life was how the oldest happiest people made it forward through life. It seemed like everyone else was emotionally, physically, or spiritually dead so that they were either the walking dead or the physically dead one of the two.
I saw that having enough fun in life was how people who lived a long time actually were living and surviving because they were happy enough in their lives to choose to stay alive another day.
There is a saying: "Follow your passion in life!"
And I saw this as "having enough fun in life to want to choose to stay alive!"
And who has more fun than kids because they are so experimental.
So, basically I have been a Dad since 1974 and now I'm a Grandad too!
And partly because of this I'm more happy than I ever expected to be at 72 years of age still!
By God's Grace
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