There are so many children in the world whose life has started off on the wrong foot. Hence, if I can make the world a better place, you certainly don’t have to ask me twice.
I don’t know when I’ll be able to adopt my first child, but first things first. I’ll just have to wait how things turn out for me next year and then I can seriously start to think about it.
If you had asked me a couple of months ago, I would have said that I don’t feel ready to have children in the forseeable future. However, I was at my cousin’s place on Monday (she has 3 children), and even though I spent just one day with her and her children, it made me so happy just to be around the children, talking, playing, explaining things and philosophizing (and I tell you, I can better philosophize with a 5 and a 3-year-old than with my friends who are around my own age!!!). Of course, it was just for one day and to be around a child for approximately 20 years has it’s ups and downs. But, after this day, I’m utterly convinced that I would be a great mother (I was a nursery-school teacher trainee for 4 years and have done a lot of babysitting ever since I was 11, so I don’t suffer from delusion of grandeur). Although I don’t know what the trigger was that told me “you’ve collected enough knowledge to be able to guide a child through his life”, but I know that I can trust my intuition.
It’ll propably be different to raise an adopted child due to his past history and questions that’ll come up when s/he is older. Nonetheless, it’s going to be a win-win for both of us!
