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Off-hand, I would say no. I don't need to have a child to complete me. However, I'm very in touch with my selfish desires these days and I realize that I would really want one eventually. It's the whole legacy thing... not that I think I'm going to be some dynasty and that I need a kid to carry it on. It's more about facing the end of my life and running for that finish line as someone who is always becoming more. I couldn't become any more than if I gave some of me in creating a child and then let that child become more in their own way throughout their life. It also takes the sting off the idea of death for me. I wouldn't feel like dying was such a final and terrible thing if I had a child. S/he would keep part of me alive, and death wouldn't mean the end of everything I worked so hard to become in my lifetime.
Of course, there's no way in hell I'm going to have a child if a doctor tells me it's going to endanger my health in any kind of serious way, or if I'm simply not in a financial position to have one before menopause rolls around. I still have to look out for number one.
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"I've missed more than 9000 shots in my career. I've lost almost 300 games. Twenty-six times I've been trusted to take the game winning shot and missed. I've failed over and over and over again in my life. And that is why I succeed."
(Michael Jordan)
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