Imagine your life as a book... an interesting one, with twists and turns, mishaps and adventures, and culminating in the perfect ending. What would be your story? More importantly, would anyone read it? This is the kind of stuff we thought about in an earlier chapter of my life story, back when I was an English major. We would sit around and ponder, discuss, debate esoteric ideas and generally come to no conclusions, but perhaps we came a bit closer to knowing ourselves?
I love to read but I am admittedly highly critical about endings of books. If I ever write a book I imagine I would never be able to finish it because the ending is everything. No matter how great the story is, if the ending is bad then the whole thing is tainted. And I don't always want a happy ending, but it must be appropriate.
So if I was writing my life story, how would I like it to end...
And since I have at least a moderately interesting middle of the book,
Then I wouldn't want to have an inappropriate ending...
And if in my mind at least, then ending is everything...
And if I am supposing that someone will want to read my story...
Then I must conclude that I will be leaving a legacy...
And if a legacy is important to me...
Then I must have an heir...
Thus.
I must have a child.
But, will having a child provide for me a nice ending, or just the next chapter? Maybe it is just the character arc that I need?
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