Cargo Bay

Cargo is shifting. Cargo is what my uncle has named AO and I think now AO is getting large-ish its a good description.
A couple of quotes:

The commonest fallacy among women is that simply having children makes them a mother - which is as absurd as believing that having a piano makes one a musician. - - - - Sydney J. Harris


Neurotics build castles in the air, psychotics live in them. My mother cleans them. - - - - Rita Rudner


I have moments when I reach saturation point with reading baby stuff - none of it is important except quashing the notion of fear of pain. There will be pain, there is no doubt, but it is how one deals with it that is the issue. Women have been subjected to this fucking lie for centuries that the pangs of childbirth are our cross to bear, we stole the apple from the Garden of Eden, blah blah blah, men can drink and smoke while we cannot during the time of our confinement- yuk! 'confinement'! to what? - piles, backache, sleep deprivation, sickness - wow! its so appealing!

But no one talks about how sorry you feel for men because they can't do what you can do or feel what you feel. It is the most powerful thing in the world and women don't use it to its full potential. It makes me believe in stuff I never believed in before. I believe in miracles - not in the corny way, but in the sense that we become world-weary, we tend to live in a spiritually somnambulent state, until another life comes along, something that jars against our notion of reality and our idea of what is important.
Also, I now realize why men are obsessed with speed, violence and technology. Its because they they don't possess the power or capacity to create life. They don't understand its essence and its essence is life-giving, not life-vanquishing. They forget that their power lies in the ability to nurture and protect, an equal and vital ability.

In answer to my question to my self, i.e. 'Why do I want to bring a child into this God-foresaken world?', the answer is 'Bollocks! We live, we fuck, we give birth, we die. There is nothing special about any of us. Doomsday will come or it will not come. Its all out of our control and if we think otherwise we're bonkers.'

Glad I sorted that out for myself!!!!