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 03.01.02 - 10:36 pm Quote: "Children who don't have families aren't somebody else's responsibility; they're our responsibility. Supporting adoption should be important to all of us." - Dave Thomas, the late founder of Wendy's and the Dave Thomas Foundation for Adoption I still haven't read the book that Dave wrote, the one about how to be successful in life by doing the right things. I dunno, everytime I try, I get to thinking about how absolutely wonderful some people are, and how I'm pretty wicked by comparison. I have really got to get over this complex of mine; I'm not sincerely a bad person, so I don't know why I feel like I am. It might be just because I'm a bit different than the people I know. But that's not what I want to write about tonight. Adoption. I think it is a wonderful idea! But very few people I know think so. They like to say, "Adopting a child is a great thing to do, but I just really want to have my own". Holy Fuck, am I the only one who sees how asinine that statement is?!? I understand that many people want to play a part in the creation of the child, but let's be honest; it isn't that hard to do. The creation of a life can occur after 10 minutes of lust-in-action. Yeah, the nine months after is hard on the mother, but after the horror of pushing a 4-10 pound screaming cootie out of your body, that's it - the baby has been created. I don't get what's so great about it. Hey, I know that people like to have their baby grow up and look like them. I'm sure there are other factors that influence people's judgement as to have "their own" baby. All I'd wish other people do is to look at the benefits of adoption. Ideally, with adoptions there is no "unwanted" child. You choose your child because you want to give your love and support to them. An adopted child isn't "unexpected" or an "accident". That child becomes your child, not because of genetics, but because you wanted and chose that child to love, nurture, support, etc. An adopted child is special because they are "chosen" and "wanted". With that said, people often give the excuse "Adopting kids is hard; you know how those custody battles are". Yeah, sometimes things go wrong in adoption cases and there are long, expensive custody battles. But isn't it worth fighting for something that you really want? The ability to love and care for a child and to give them a life better than what they would have otherwise is something that is definitively worth fighting for. Oh, but that's just my opinion. What the hell do I know; I'm just a twenty-year-old college student without a significant other. Sarcasm aside, I love the idea of adoption. Maybe in ten years or so, I'll have mellowed out and matured enough to adopt some children. I'm thinking two girls. My sister and I have a wonderful relationship, so I know that being sisters can create a very wonderful bond, and I hope that those girls could experience that. Hee, notice I say two girls. Boys are scary... all I can think of is my brother, and he was a scary, royal terror! I hope to learn eventually how my mom managed. I feel better now. Ack, my roommate is having two of her dude friends spend the night tomarrow. I *guess* I really don't mind, but they'd better not DARE try to watch the t.v. at 11:30pm, cause the final episode of Cowboy Bebop is on, and I'll be damned if I'm going to miss taping it just cause she has some people over. Yeah, that is SO my show :) Then on Sunday, I've got to see if Invader Zim is on at 1:30pm. I've got 3 exams next week, so I'm really glad I got my art project done ahead of time. No, I didn't do it ahead of time because of any form of intellect; I just got the due-date mixed up, so I thought it was due earlier than what it really was :) I bought some vanilla almond soy milk to-day, I'm going to go try it right now! Will I like it? Tune in tomarrow to find out! Back & Forth Previous Adventures of Doom! Villains need to eat too (unless they are robots, of course). - 11.27.05 Tips for making laundry easy. - 11.23.05 Detroit museums and baklava. - 11.20.05 My affair with the Scotch Craft Stick. - 11.18.05 |
