To have or not to have

Kids. Love them....for about 20 mins.

No pressure on us to pop one out as yet. I see all around me...my friends, enemies, acquaintances, cousins etc planning, carrying or having babies. I am yet to fully understand "why". Dont get me wrong...I am not against the concept or a kid hater. I just need a better reason to create life.
The cornerstone of the Indian middle class kid's life, has these phases:

Birth- School admission- 10th Boards- 12th Boards- Graduation- PG- Employment- Pay hike-Foreign Tour- Marriage- Kid- 2nd Kid- and the cycle starts again.

Somewhere in between are the birthdays, sports events and puberty. I do not claim that if you follow or have followed this cycle you are ordinary and unhappy. I merely point out that we follow a pattern and you and I are no exceptions. No one has been able to give me a non-emotional (quantifiable) reason to make babies. "Everybody does it" ain't a good enough reason for me to loose sleep, money and my wife's attention. Continue the family name, watch something you create grow, play thing, feels right etc are reasons as pointless and futile as analyzing Govinda's "Raja Babu".

Guess the "it" feeling is yet to set in and reason is yet to give way to emotions. So till then if am told or asked about the "good news" I am tempted to say "drink a shot of Jack Daniels and slap yourself with hawaii chappals" *

*read that somewhere and loved it..

Beating your kids

I was introduced to Russell Peters a year and a half back and am hooked. His take on life, people, cultures, colour etc blows my mind. One of his shows bought out the importance of white people beating their kids. He says a multicultural environment in which black, brown, white and asians kids grow up together needs a certain parenting balance which is destroyed with immigrant parents ass whopping their kids and white kids getting sent to their rooms. It makes the white kids social outcasts. The video below is a "beating for dummies" for white parents. Turn up the volume.