My whole thing is that I completely own that I may be a misanthropic freak of nature, but I have a sneaking suspicion I'm not that much of one, and if parents really are that fulfilled by parenting why don't they ever stop complaining about ithttps://twitter.com/Brien_Jackson/status/1373241380907155461 …
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I think the primary way in which I strongly believe I'm a better man than him is recognizing this fact about myself in time to not make any irreversible decisions that would punish an innocent baby for my own lack of self-knowledge
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(If I had to name one character trait of mine that's the most likely to turn people off about me it's the extension of the child hating thing - it's that while I strongly morally condemn deadbeat dads I also overwhelmingly empathize with them There but for the grace of God)
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(There is an alternate universe where I have a biological kid somewhere that I've seen in person all of twice and I am voluntarily choosing to work double shifts at a crappy job as preferable to being a custodial parent)
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(And everybody in my family and the mom's family hates me for this choice but it's literally that or suicide And someday that kid's gonna do the Will Smith monologue "WHY DON'T HE WANT ME, MAN?" and I'll have no answer but "I'm just a shitty person, okay?!")
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Anyway whenever I feel bad about my actual current life, which ever since the pandemic started is pretty much all the time to varying degrees, I just think about this possible other me in this other timeline and realize how lucky I am to not be him
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I also take after my dad, who is not a kid-hater but would rather be reading a book than interacting with people pretty much any time. I got none of my mom's desire to nurture children, and while I do like taking care of foster kittens, I'm much less likely to fuck them up
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like, kittens are great, you feed them and clean out their litter box and give them affection and they love you. you don't have to send them to kitten school and worry that they're being bullied by the other kittens, or try to help them get a kitten job in kitten capitalism
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