My forty-year plan and how it would change if I had a kid in a year (which would never happen aha):
Babies are cute, small, smelly, and expensive. It takes a lot of work to take care of and raise a child. I am not, and will not be ready for that responsibility anytime soon. But, just to see, this is how my forty-year plan would change if I were to make the horrifying mistake of having a child in the next year with some other idiot (who would probably run off and leave me to raise the kid on my own).
If I were to have a baby in a year, my five-year plan would change drastically. First, I would not be able to go to University because I wouldn’t have the time or money. I probably wouldn’t be in a relationship because the baby daddy would have left, or I’d be in an unhealthy relationship since the guy must have pressured me into having sex and then neither of us used protection for some reason. I might still be living with my parents if they didn’t kick me out, but my friends would likely shun me or not hang around me very much because I made such a stupid decision. I would be living in Wingham with a crappy minimum wage job. All in all, my life would not be what I wanted it to be, and I would most likely be very miserable if I had a baby in the next year.
My ten-year plan would also be ruined if I were to have a child in the next year. I wouldn’t be getting decent acting jobs because I wasn’t able to go to University. I might be married or in a relationship (hopefully with a decent guy), but I’d still be living in Wingham or somewhere in Huron County with racist, homophobic neighbours. I wouldn’t have much of a social life because any of the people I know who stayed in Wingham would either think I’m a slut and not want to talk to me, or they would be people I don’t want to spend time with. Also, having a 10 year old kind of cuts down on your amount of personal time. I wouldn’t be able to have a nice apartment or house because most of my money would be going towards things my child needs and saving for acting college. I would be depressed and hopeless most of the time in ten years if I had a child in the next year.
If I were to have a baby in the next year, my twenty-year plan would be thrown completely out of whack. I wouldn’t be able to travel because I would have very little money because of my child and paying for acting college. I would try to go to acting college so I could sort of live out my dream. I wouldn’t want to adopt anymore children after having my life ruined by one. I would try to send my kid to college or University, and maybe we could even end up going to the same post-secondary school. I would not be able to go and help build a school in a third-world country because I wouldn’t have the time or money. My life would be horrible and mind-numbing in twenty years if I had a child in the next year.
My forty-year plan would also change if I were to have a child in the next year. First, I would still try to travel because I hopefully would have gotten a few good acting jobs and been able to save a little. However, I would probably just be traveling around Canada and the U.S. because I wouldn’t have enough money to go anywhere else. I would not be famous because I would have arrived in the acting business a little too far on in life, and wouldn’t have the same experience as others. I would hopefully be in a steady relationship and own a mediocre house. I might try to move out of Huron County to somewhere with more culture, and possibly somewhere in Quebec. Basically, my forty-year plan would be a lot less spectacular than I had previously imagined it to be, if I had a child in the next year.
Having a child is a huge responsibility and I am definitely not ready for parenthood just yet. If I had a baby in the next year, my family and friends would be very disappointed in me, my dreams would be far less attainable, and I wouldn’t have a very good relationship with my child because I would partially blame it for not being able to achieve my dreams. In conclusion, I think teens should never have children, because they are simply not ready for that challenge.
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