What are your thoughts on being a father one day?

Nitefly said:
If the circumstances are right, then it would be amazing. Being a dad is essentially completing one of life's greatest achievements.
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Being a decent Dad and raising a good child is essentially completing one of lifes greatest achievements. Simply doing it in the first place isn't much of an acheiement at all, we are programmed to do it, even a Gerbil can manage it.

Only once you've succeeded in raising a child does it become an achievement IMHO :)
 
G-MAN2004 said:
I would like to be a father one day, for sure, but I can't really see it happening before the age of 30.

I don't really understand people who say they are never going to have children. It's almost like failing our sole aim as human beings. Also, why wouldn't you want to create life with someone you love? I imagine it to be an amazing feeling seeing your children grow up.
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The noise
The cost
The smell
The loss of personal space & time.
The responsibility

I can think of more amazing feelings than never sleeping again & cleaning up baby poop/puke.

I don't understand the whole need to pass on genes thing. I also don't understand people who feel it's their sole aim in life. There are loads of things I would love to do before I die, certainly enough to keep me busy for the rest of my days, but this is not one of them and in fact would prevent me achieving many of the other things.

I can safely say if I had had a child with any of my previous girlfriends, my life would now be ruined. Thank god I didn't. :D
 
It's unlikely to ever happen, but if it does I'm sure it'll be scary, wonderful, tiring, frustrating and ultimately the best thing in the world.
 
Getting through life without giving in to your base instincts and procreating is more of an achievement IMO.

There are some that say the more intelligent and responsible in society are the ones reproducing later, if at all, and because of that the general intelligence in the developed world is declining. :p
 
Wait untill your late twenties/thirties, I wish I had, not that I would change anything for the world, but yeah enjoy yourself in your twenties and your kids in your thirties :)
 
I always wanted to be a father, and when my first was born it was the most amazing and emotionally time of my life.

Wouldn't turn back the clock for all the "Teas in China." :)
 
Ahhh... I remember thinking "one day" I might be ready to be a father.

My fiancée (now my wife) asked me one day six years ago when I thought I'd be ready for kids. I replied "one day." She wasn't satisfied with this response for some reason and on further prompting I managed "maybe four or five years?"

She wasn't amused by this equivocation either, and, well... basically she was pregnant within six months of that conversation.

Now have two boys aged five and three. Can't say I felt ready for it until the first was home from the hospital, but I wouldn't change how it worked out now for anything... :)
 
Moses said:
I'm twenty-five in July :eek:.

I've still got a year of uni left, too... it was bad enough, last year, being exactly five years older than my quarterback. Now I'll be seven year older than the freshers, lololol :(.
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Jesus, and I thought I was a slacker! :p
 
Some day maybe but it's not even on the cards for me at the moment.

I think I'd make a good dad if the time came.
 
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