Baby Mama

I really have a ton to do and I haven't been blogging as a result but I'm at the lab for like the third straight night in a row and I don't know if I'll be leaving anytime soon but I just wanted to empty my head of at least this thought. I have a lot of potential blogs buzzing around in my head but I haven't had time to write them...I can do this one fast though...:

I realize that television and movies are not accurate portrayals of the lives, activities and beliefs of the American people but when it comes to stuff outside of the church I kind of can't help but take their word for how things are. This being said I've been seeing something in television and movies that kind of disturbs me: older, single, career women wanting to have test tube babies.

I'm only twenty-two and I totally understand the want and the need to have a baby (just ask Sadie). And as a member of the church I believe that their is no greater cause that I could devote my life to, so single, older ladies I feel for you. Sometimes my biggest fear is not that I won't get married, but that I won't have the chance to be a mother. I realize that the two are not mutually exclusive and that's why I can't understand these women who cut out the middle man (literally).

Lets evaluate this for a second...for whatever reason these 40+ women have never been married (or maybe they have been but divorced and there were no children) but all of them have failed to have long-lasting important relationships. I'm sure one of the reasons is because they are so career oriented and not willing to make sacrifices. In a word, they are selfish. And because they are selfish, they are alone, and because they are alone they're depressed and because they're depressed they want to bring to life a creature who's existence is completely dependent on them. Who will love them unquestioningly. Who doesn't want that after all?

My advice to these women...GET A DOG!

You couldn't get pregnant the real way because of selfishness, and you think that selfishness is going to go away because you have a kid that is totally dependent on you. Motherhood is the most thankless, self-sacrificing job in the world. If you can't establish a give and take, communicative, loving, relationship with another mature adult what makes you think you will be able to do it with a being who ONLY takes and CAN'T communicate? It just doesn't really make sense to me.

Now the point that I haven't factored into the equation is that some of these women are not choosing to be single. And I feel for those gals. Sometimes men are jerks and sometimes (actually all the time) its better to be single than to be in a bad relationship. But to you my advice still applies...get a dog. A dog won't blame you for how screwed up it is after eighteen years of your care. It will just be glad to see you.

I guess this was brought on by a House episode where a woman and her baby were near death all because she was so old. She would have rather died than abort the unhealthy fetus that was killing her. That fetus was all she had. If she had gotten it together in her thirties she wouldn't have this problem. Also the movie Baby Mama is coming out. I'm actually really excited about it because I have a girl-crush on Tina Fey. Tina Fey's characters are usually always these pathetic baby-hungry women I'm talking about but I can love her because in real life she is married and has a daughter and gives credit for her stability and happiness to her husband and child.

Family is where it is at.

I hate doing homework right now.

Someone near me in the lab has really bad foot odor.

"One love, we get to share it. It will leave you baby if you don't care for it." -- U2