3 weeks pregnant, read the digital stick I pissed on one Saturday after feeling fat and taking everything that came out my husband’s mouth as a personal attack.
“Honey, are you ready to…”
“I’M ALWAYS READY!”
How odd humans are, I remember thinking as the words rapidly appeared. We’re so smart we can digitalise our piss, but we’ll drink a credit card amount of plastic every week without complaining.
Now, you would think an ecstatically married woman in her mid-thirties who had been trying to get pregnant for more than half a year would be beaming with the words on this stick. Not just in awe of the human progress of digitalised piss, but blissing out on the news itself. Would be overwhelmed with gratitude. Elated. Bursting with happiness.
I was paralysed by it.
Here’s how much we waste in Australia. Post continues after video.
If only the news had arrived a week earlier. I would have instantly felt a glow, floating around the house in cheesecloth, throwing knowing glances to my husband as we silently imagined what our magical baby might look like in a small pair of sneakers and a knitted cardigan.
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This is brilliant. Keen to read more
Children born today here can expect to live to almost 100. They will never face famine, the world should knowledge is at their fingertips, travel is easier than ever and we live in an unprecedented era of peace and luxury. It’s never been a better era to be born, as long as you don’t fall for predictions of doom that have thus far failed to occur in every case, across the entire planet.
In many ways it's a beautiful time to be alive. That really is true, human existence has never been smooth sailing. It's just a little hard knowing the science and seeing inaction from world leaders.
It’s a fantastic time to be alive. True we are caught in a period too late to explore the planet and too soon to explore the galaxy, but other than that, by every metric you’d rather be an average Aussie today than a king or queen a couple hundred years ago and our kids will have it even better.
Look, there’s always been people telling us the end is nigh and they always have the solution for a few dollars, don’t they? I remember as a kid watching Leonard Nemoy hosting In Search Of with a program about the coming man made ice age in the 1970s. In the 1980’s it was AIDs and nuclear war. In the 1990s in was the ozone layer. In the 2000’s it was terrorism, it the 2010s it was global warming, which became climate change when they planet stopped warming, which is now climate emergency because people are wholly skeptical and so they need to double down on the fear.
No, we don’t need to start eating bugs, stop having families or pay taxes they tell us will change the weather.
It's not often we agree - it's a fair point you raise though Les
Catastrophic scenarios, scare tactics and 'over egging' the pudding is common and detrimental to the actual intention from what I have read.