Went down to Eatonville on Saturday for a cider press at our neighbor’s uncle’s house. It was a great event with close to a hundred friends and family members all pressing apples and cooking and eating and talking. I had a chance to look at his WWII-era Stearman biplane, which is apparently what my grandfather must have trained military pilots on. Ate so much amazing food it was like and early thanksgiving. And I now have five gallons of fresh-pressed cider.
I’d like to have a huge family like that someday. It does make me a little sad that I probably won’t, given how late I’m starting…
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Hey Niels,
I’m 24, just graduated with my masters and getting ready to go work in Venezuela as a field engineer for an oil company. Every day I worry because I don’t want to have children or even get married yet until my job is less dangerous and more conducive for a family yet society is telling me if I want a big family I need to be married and start having kids now.
The thing is, what society says doesn’t always work for everyone. It took me a long time but I realize now you need to make society work for you, not vice versa. You can have a large family if you want and you don’t need to be married at 18.
Have faith in yourself that your doing the right thing for yourself. I have doubts at times but I always tell myself this is what I want and when I am ready to have kids (be that three years from now or 6) then I will have them.
From what I can tell from reading your blog you’ve lived an amazing life. Don’t let the fact that you don’t want to settle down or be saddled with children at a young age deter you in what you want to do right now.
Hope that makes sense. I know you’ll have a big family one day.
Amanda
You deserve 100 children or more! You will be the best father Niels!