Planning a baby?Read on

Rahul!when do you think will be the right time for us to plan a baby ? Radha asked to her husband.

May be never!Replied Rahul.

What do you mean? Will we never have a baby?Radha asked. 

That's exactly what I meant.I do not think that we should have a baby.A lot is  needed to be done before it. Rahul clarified himself.

It doesn't take a genius to figure out what happened next.

Radha was irritated.

What the hell is needed Rahul?She asked.

She somehow managed to speak without fire coming out from her mouth but flames were almost visible.Who the hell said that dragons are fictional?

What is your problem with the children?Radha continued.

Plenty,Rahul said.

Tell me,Radha said.

When the conversation between a couple comes down to words rather than sentences, some kind of explosion can be expected soon.

I do not think I can be a good father,Radha!Rahul said,his voice soft and thoughtful.

He expressed to his wife what was his real thought about himself.Like all the people on earth,he too wanted his shortcomings to go unexposed.But today he decided to bare it all.

Are you serious?why do you think so?Radha asked curiously.

Giving birth to a child is incredibly difficult but if you compare it with the time,efforts and knowledge it takes to raise the child into a valuable member of the world, it looks easy.Please remember that some set of parents managed obama and some set of parents manged osama. 

And why do you think that we are not capable of giving good life lessons and values?And who thinks is these terms before having a child.I have seen many couples celebrating their first anniversary with their child. Radha pointed out.

May god bless those couples Radha,but everyone have a right to think in a way that their own soul is satisfied.When I look into the mirror, I see an incredibly self centered,selfish person who is incessantly running after money ignoring everything and everyone in between including friends, family and the world in general.I see a person who lies at the blink of an eye and who is ready to damage others if it comes to his own survival.I see a damaged,delusional person who is ready to criticize everyone and have no appreciation or empathy for people around him.Do you think that such a mentally obliterated person can help a child in becoming a good man?

Rahul finished his monologue.

Radha converted it into dialogue and said, 'Don't be too harsh on yourself. Deep down nearly everyone is exactly same.The darkness you say is unique to you is so common that people have even stopped realizing it as darkness.And it definitely doesn't stop them from having a child.

I also feel that we have ruined our planet in such a way that it won't be able to sustain for very long.Rising temperatures,imbalanced seasons and what not.When the worst will come, we may not be here to face it but our child will have to feel the burn,Rahul said.

You are such a pessimistic person Rahul!If what you say is possible then it is equally possible that some child taking birth today may find a solution to these problems.Humanity have overcome numerous challenges and I am very hopeful that our future is going to be as bright.I agree that as a species,we have grown too much and urgently need to contain ourselves but that should not stop us from having our child.She/He will be with us when we get older and support us when we become incapable of supporting ourselves, Radha argued.

Dear Radha!haven't you seen countless people abandoning their parents just because they are not compatible to the family anymore?Rahul asked. 

I know it may never come true Rahul but that hope is all you need to survive sometimes,Radha replied.

Don't you feel that bringing a new life into the world just for the sake of your liking and a partial hope of support is incredibly selfish?How will you feel when you see your child fighting for water to drink and air to breath?I mean if you are still there to see everything,Rahul said. 

The intellect of humans have defeated all the problems sooner or later.Our spirit of being alive is incredibly strong.We are so advanced now that we are planning to be extraterrestrial,Radha argued.

Our advancement is apparently visible now. A goddamn mutation of already known family of virus brought entire human population to stand still. We are slowly but surely moving towards our own peril and I don't want to be the reason for suffering of another human being who,if not for my stupidity,will have to face nothing. Rahul was convinced with his own logic.

Radha said,I am convinced that growing population is the biggest problem we are facing now and if we do not change our course of journey, we are heading towards destruction.Problem is, how many people will agree with what you are saying?And the bigger problem is if everyone agrees, then there will not be any next generation.What do you think is the best way forward?

I have few questions worth thinking about.First one is How are you going to guide an infinite potential if you are yet to comprehend your own potential?

Secondly,how will you make a child worthy if you have not yet made yourself worthy of a child?

If these are not considered,then the inefficiency,inability,anger,frustration and the mental situation of parents are dumped on children who are helpless and can not fight back and to save the face,is termed as caring.This should be the definition of inhuman.

Haven't you seen the mental,physical,psychological,financial inefficiencies of parents  burning many childhood?

I think all the couples should ask themselves if they honestly think that they are the person now that they would like to see as a role model for their child and should proceed only if the answer to this question is yes.If not they must work on themselves to be reach the level.This journey of self transformation will certainly reveal the precarious situation we are in right now and then they will be happy to follow the principle of 'preferably none,maximum one'.If we do not introspect seriously,earth's appointment with sky is certainly scheduled,Rahul concluded.

He looked at Radha who was looking deep into the sky.

Some moments passed.Then she turned towards him and said, let's first look inwards then.