Now, I graduated in 2011 with about 400 people in my class and the other high school in Janesville graduated somewhere around 300 maybe, I don't know. But now that I am in college and working towards some kind of future sitting in some office with some dipshit boss and hopefully some cool best buds like workaholics. I wonder to myself the thoughts and ideas of someone fresh out of high school or in high school would want to have a baby and be a parent for the remainder of their lives or so. I think at the turn of the new year I can't count on two hands the amount of kids from Janesville that I graduated with or who are younger then me that have kids or in the process of having a kid. It is absolutely shocking. Now, mind you, I don't know these people personally or know their situation but I try to put myself in their shoes and think about my life if one day I got that call saying how I might be a father before I am ready.
First off, my parents would cut me off and kick me right to the streets. They would barely be able to look me in the eye if I told them I was having a kid and dropping out of school. Second, and most important of them all, my future would take a serious turn for the potential worst. A college degree is so precious these days that not graduating could mean the end to me being able to support a child right and give it the proper care and attention that it needs to strive. I wouldn't be able to find a decent off job out of the gate to find a place to live or to feed her or myself and we would suffer.
Which is why I don't get how these people can be truly happy about themselves getting pregnant. It just doesn't calculate in my head how someone could think their life is on the uphill now that a baby is on the way. Kids are expensive and time consuming and require so much to have any potential of not being a repeat offender of their parents. And listen guys, I'm not here saying that every teen pregnancy turns into a disaster, I know of plenty of cases where a baby born to early in the parents lives turn out just fine and end up getting the necessary tools to strive and able to make a life of their own. But I just don't know about these people in Janesville doing it, it isn't fair to the parents or the kids that they get put in their situation from some silly mistake that is easily avoidable.
Maybe I'm right about some stuff and maybe I'm not. But i'm not the judge and don't wish any ill will upon the people who are in this boat that is teen pregnancy. But I know someone who is all about stopping the race to fertilize your eggs, his name is Trojan. Just some food for thought.
See y'all later, Alex
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