Monday, December 6, 2010
Difficult Decisions
In the book I'm reading for the outside novel, a woman gives birth to twins, one healthy and one with down syndrome. The father (also the doctor) decides to send the baby girl with down syndrome away and tell his wife that the baby died during birth. This eventually leads to a ruined marriage and a torn family. As I was reading this, it made me think if I was in that situation what I would do. This book takes place in the 60s when kids with down syndrome were looked upon as burdens with no hope and life was just too hard for them. I think, regardless of that, I would never be able to choose one kid over the other or pretend they were dead knowing full well that they were not. So I would say it wasn't a difficult decision at all. Sometimes there will be challenges and you and your family have to overcome them as you get to them. Trying to find an easy way out will not work, because I personally don't think there are any easy roads. Thats what life is, taking what life gives you and doing your best in any and every situation.
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"When life gives you lemons, you make lemonade." You have to roll with the punches in life. If things were easy, I don't think the world would have some of the awesome and brilliant people that are around today. Life's full of decisions, some not as important as others, but in the end each decision shapes the final outcome of one's life.
ReplyDeleteWell life is full of decisions, but one decision that shouldn't be difficult is deciding whether or not you want to keep a child that you decided to have. If you can't handle to difficulties of having a child then shouldn't have decided to have one at all. I think that people sometimes think that they want kids but the problem is once they have them and have to deal with the child's needs they become selfish and regret having kids at all.
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