Oh. My...Ahhhh!

Ever want a reason to utilize birth control until you're thirty? Then go work at a daycare center with the one and two year olds!

I kid you not. I LOVE the little munchkins to death. But they are exhausting, demanding, and I'm dead after eight hours.

Lucky mommy and daddies get to take them home every night.

Personally, I like getting to randomly go over to a friend's house without hiring a babysitter. I like staying up till all hours of the night on weekends, partying, screaming, singing, joking around and having loads of fun without worrying about keeping up a toddler.

I like knowing that I have a future of carefree dating, relationships packed with fun and no strings attached. I like dreaming about family life as a future, and craziness as now.

And I like that I have opportunity. Once you have babies, you don't have any more opportunity. That's why you have them after you've seized your opportunities. Right?

Right. And my opportunities are sky-high right now. I am well aware of that. I am heading off to a humongous university next year, without massive financial stress, and I have parents who love me. And I'm in America.

What else do I need?

Certainly not babies.

Not that I ever wanted babies. But my friend is pregnant, and the possibility of having babies at my age scares the heck out of me.

So. No babies for me. For a LONG time.

When I'm content with my career, financially stable, and married to my knight in shining armor for a few years, babies might come into the picture. Until then, good luck to the poor, unfortunate eighteen and nineteen year old mothers out there.

I say it again. Good luck.