I met a friend for lunch the day before. She's due to give birth in a month and was sharing with me how she discovered she was pregnant. There was no "jump for joy" as seen on TV, there was actually an awkward silence after the "announcement". It was only after 2 weeks that reality bites and the couple finally sat down to "deal with the change". I cracked up but well, i also shared that I have a very strong hunch & foresight that there'll be one fateful day i'll want kids, only to realise that age permits or reduces the chances of having one.
The very next day, I met KL for lunch and we shared the table with an absolutely lovely 8-year old boy. He had absolutely everything to talk about - school, Ninja Warriors, his love for reading and Mathematics etc. I can see that KL enjoyed the conversation with this boy. The mother actually started giving us a "lesson" in family planning - don't take pills, don't wait too long, kids are absolute fun, returning to the workforce is easy if u have a kid earlier, don't stop at 1 but stop at 2 etc...
This chance meeting made me wonder if it's a "signal" to us to really start "dealing" with this family planning issue. I am apprehensive coz really, we never really had a conversation on when we should start. Very often, the answer is "not now" but there's always no answer to "when". Maybe when the answer to "when" comes, it'll all be too late. So what can i do now to deal with it? Absolutely nothing.
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