I wish for the ease and certainty some people have when it comes to having children. The lack of absolute conviction makes me wonder about my grasp on that inherent motherly instinct every woman supposedly comes pre-packaged with, or so I am often told of and made to believe.
There seems to be hardly any space or room for those who sit on the fence and find it difficult to arrive at a final decision. I wondered about this sense of certainty even more, especially after a visit to a friend who had just given birth. She had such a fierce desperation to become a mother that when her partners in long-term relationships couldn’t come to a decision about children, she opted for a casual one and an open willingness to go the journey completely alone.