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98/05/24 update
Do you want a kid?
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Hi everyone! Thank you for reading columns! I'm Thomas.
Well, I'm going to pose one question to all of you. Do
you want a kid?
My friend: Hey Thomas, do you want a kid?
Thomas: Well I never did before but now I guess I would
like to have one if there is a chance.
My friend: You never did before?
Thomas: Yeah, because they are annoying and messy, have
no common sense, make noise anywhere, say heartless
things and don't mind, and dare to do things prohibited.
My friend: That's how kids are. Kid's privilege, you
know? So, what changed your mind?
Thomas: I'm not dying to have one right now. I just
think it's OK.
My friend: How come did you think that way?
Thomas: My mother told me about her mother, that is
my grandmother, before. My grandmother has been dead
then. She was very feminine but cool and sporty, had
good tastes, and modern. I loved her very much.
My friend: Um-hum.
Thomas: And my mother told me everything about her,
things what she did and said. Hearing those stories
about my grandmother, she became vivid and real in me.
My mother took over the way my granma lived, and here
is me being stimulated by her children, hearing what
kind of person my mother's mother (my granma) was.
She is no longer with me. But it seemed to me that I heard
her words and saw her history in real time.
(at this point, my friend had watery eyes)
And I thought. I'm not a talented person who might be
able to have influence on the world. But I'm living thinking
a lot of stuff. Everyday is just a same, but that is my
history. It would be great if the history could be taken
over by my biological child after my death. That's why
I changed my mind. (now my friend started weeping)
My friend: I understand... (in tears)
Thomas: Why you have to cry? (Thomas got rattled)
My friend: I know but it's a good story...(weeping)
At that time, we were in a coffee shop. I strongly hoped
that people didn't see us having a public lovers' spat.
(I know no one would think so. Laugh!
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