Englischkenntnisse

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“Don’t dream your life, but live your dream!”

This popular adage is very true, but you can’t adapt it to all life situations. If you ripped the life period apart, you would have two pieces. There’s the “rollercoaster”-act and the relaxing part of life.

You shouldn’t mix them. Turning points are marked in the first act of life, not in the second.

The adage is true, yes, but some dreams are built to be everlasting.

Of course, having a child is not one of those typical dreams which can’t come true. But it depends on the when. At some point you must come to the conclusion that it’s too late for some things you wanted to do. You can’t do them all.

Having children when you’re too old is one of those things. It’s not easy for the children, either.

On the one side it could feel uncomfortable to be the kid with the oldest daddy in class, it could also be shattering to realize your dad isn’t able anymore to do such typical dad-thingies.

There’s much more needed for being a daddy than just changing the baby’s nappy and bottle-feeding. It’s your duty to be a grand father-figure, not a grandfather-figure. A small but nice difference

The child needs someone to hold on to, someone to run to in situations where the mother might not be the best conversation partner.

On the other side there’s a big pro: Life experience. You can tell your children how the system works, that’s what you ought to and simultaneously only a few afterborne daddies are on a par with you.

To cut a long story short: If you’re definitely able to have children whilst being in the “golden age”: go for it.

Otherwise you better think of adopting older children as foster parents.

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Science. Hardly has another “occasion” changed the humanity that far-reaching as biological, psychological and medical science.

We don’t need to go into details of penicillin, Meitner’s atomic researches, the subatomic particles, Einstein’s theory of relativity, Deuteronomy or even the invention of the X-ray apparatus by Roentgen.

Science has completely changed the human view of things surrounding him, has increased the expectancy of life, etc.

We cannot even list every aspect. Of course science has also increased the inquisitiveness of human beings, our fellows seem to want to know more and more and can never be fed enough with scientific researches and new theories resulting in turning points. It was almost acceptable to declare this a global science-impatience.

Genetic research, a – let’s call it debatable – subarea, went way further then completing the Human Genome Project. We are intervening in natural processes, are on the one hand happy of Darwin’s survival of the fittest, on the other hand we don’t seem to care too much about that as far as we are avoiding this theory scientifically every day we’re planting something new, changing the genotype and phenotype and so on.

Although science has made a huge step forward itself and made it possible for humanity to make a huge step forward either, it better remained a small step for a human and for the humanity.

To cut a long story short I’m still thinking science and the changes resulting were clearly for better. It’s just the impatience making me feel uncomfortable nowadays.