I had a friend in Uni whose parents were in their 70's while she was in her 20's...she had a terrible relationship with them, particularly due to age gap issues. I'm sure she doesn't wish they hadn't had her, duh, but she didn't totally understand the reasons for having her.
I think you shouldn't be having babies at 63, because even though it may be something the woman really wants, I don't think it's fair on the child. It seems a selfish decision to me. I hope I'm never in that position.
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Whether we write or speak or do but look
We are ever unapparent. What we are
Cannot be transfused into word or book.
Our soul from us is infinitely far.
However much we give our thoughts the will
To be our soul and gesture it abroad,
Our hearts are incommunicable still.
In what we show ourselves we are ignored.
The abyss from soul to soul cannot be bridged
By any skill of thought or trick of seeming.
Unto our very selves we are abridged
When we would utter to our thought our being.
We are our dreams of ourselves, souls by gleams,
And each to each other dreams of others' dreams.
Fernando Pessoa, 1918
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