I didn't read all 4 pages, so hopefully I'm not repeating what someone's said or completely off the mark.

It really is an interesting discussing as to what exactly being grown up means.

I'm turning 40 later in March this year. While I was in my late teens and all of my twenties, it never crossed my mind that I wouldn't be married and childless. But as I entered my thirties, I really started questioning whether I really wanted kids. With them comes all sorts of responsibility I may not want to shoulder.

Now that I'm hitting 40 and soon it won't be a choice anymore to not have kids. I'm hoping I won't regret it, but it's not like I have a burning desire to be a mother.

I went snowboarding over the weekend and my mother commented that all I seem to do is play, but is that so wrong? Like the guy in the article, I'm gainfully employed, own my own place, pay my taxes and haven't been in trouble with the law or anything. I just happen to not taken the road of becoming a wife and mother.

I think we're becoming very self-focused these days, "what can we do to make our lives better?" instead of in the past "what can I do to make my family's life better?" And for those who choose not to have a family, is it so wrong to do things that make our lives better?