How can people have children?

[helena]

I'm not tying to rant or express hate towards parents, I am genuinely interested in the reasons people justify having children. I cannot for the life of me understand how anyone can live with themselves if they have had a child, you're not having a baby, you're having a person, that has to be forced into education, a career, and ultimately a completely pointless and soul destroying system that cares about only one thing, people earning money.

I would say most people would want me as a kid, I got the best grade in my college, i'm a science student at one of the top 10 universities in the world, do athletics at a very high level, never in trouble, no boyfriends, drugs or alcohol, but I hate my life, the fact that someone could be so selfish to put me one this Earth infuriates me (I don't hate my mother, she is a fantastic women who I love immensely, just will never thank her for giving birth to me). Life is so hard and pointless, and the only thing I have to be happy about is the fact that I have it good compared to others, because I wasn't born in a war torn country, I wasn't married off at 12 ect, but how on Earth is that supposed to make me feel better, the fact that millions of people have terrible lives?

Im not some whiny immature child either, im extremely shy and introverted, Id never say this allowed, the internet is my only outlet. There is no God, there is no afterlife, this is everything we ever have, and it is terrible! I find it so hard to get on with life these days in the first world, why cant we see how stupid we are, there's probably more media attention given to mindless celebrity drivel and reality TV than there is to the fact that thousands of children will starve to death today.

Do people really force their offspring into this world because they arrogantly believe they could grow up to sort out these problems and make the world a better place, how do you know that the thousands of children that died today couldn't have sorted it out? Every mouth we produce adds to the worlds problems, eats up more resources, produces more pollution and drives attention away from the real atrocities of the world.

Thanks for taking the time to read this, I would really like to know the reasons people add to this terrible existence