Chi'ren

What does one do when one realizes, too late, that one's life could only be fulfilled by having had children...but when one realizes that too late?

I'm not referring to my wife and me, though it could easily apply to us. We've never wanted children. I don't know quite why, other than our selfishness. We've just never wanted them or the life-changes they would have wrought.

What happens to people who didn't want children, for many good reasons, but who then realize that maybe they really did, after all? I can only imagine it must be akin to finding a huge, gaping hole in one's life, a hole that can't be filled. Assuming, of course, that it's too late. At 54 and 62, it would be too late for us.

But what does one do? Nothing, I imagine. There's nothing to be done. I just hope people who opt not to have children think about it long and hard.

My only concern with our decision is that there's no one to take care of us after we can no longer take care after ourselves Hmmm. We'd consider adoption, if you're in the market.