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Post by confuzzled dude Sat Apr 04, 2015 9:12 pm

Geoff Dyer’s fantastic essay, “Over and Out,” is the most buoyant and the most thought-provoking. He takes on the self-rationalizations of parents with crushing humor and verve. “You can persuade yourself that your children prevented you from having this career that had never looked like working out. So it goes on: things are always forsaken in the name of an obligation to someone else, never as a failing, a falling short of yourself. Before you know it desire has atrophied to the degree that it can only make itself apparent by passing itself off as an obligation. After a couple of years of parenthood people become incapable of saying what they want to do in terms of what they want to do. Their preferences can only be articulated in terms of a hierarchy of obligations — even though it is by fulfilling these obligations (visiting in-laws, being forced to stay in and baby-sit) that they scale the summit of their desires.”
http://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/who-needs-kids/2015/04/02/dcf9e730-c114-11e4-ad5c-3b8ce89f1b89_story.html?hpid=z5

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