I’m 
starting to understand why so many people have children. Sure it may be upbringing and trying to live the American dream or doing what your parents did before you and just trying to follow in their footsteps. But for those of us who decided not to have children sometimes a certain whole is left in our lives. And I think that whole is something called Legacy. Children are a way to leave something to the earth after we are gone. But when you find yourself closer to 50 then you are 40 and having left nothing of significant value to this earth so far to this point it sort of leaves a huge hole in the heart.
Ralph Waldo Emerson wrote: “To leave the world a bit better, whether by a healthy child, a garden patch, or a redeemed social condition; to know that even one life has breathed easier because you have lived – that is to have succeeded”
I feel I have so far failed. I need to create something.