Whose timeline are you on?
Yours?
Mine?
Society's?
Few weeks ago, a man welcomed his first child at 51 and shared the news with friends and I saw some replies like,
"51 is not a good age to have a child."
That statement only sounds logical until you really sit with it. There are tons of reasons why people have their first kids around that age, could be medical, financial, etc. Also, that 51 years old might die at 95 basically spending 40+ years with the child while another person might have theirs at 30 and die 7 years later. Life is different for everyone.
What actually matters isn’t when you have a child, but how you show up:
- Love
- Stability
- Emotional availability
- Intention
I love how people love to pretend like life is a straight line; School - Job - Marriage - kids - Retire, but life is more like abstract art. Messy, unpredictable, and personal.
Life has zero respect for timelines.
You could have everything planned out and it would still go left. Everyone’s clock is different, and none of them are wrong just because they don’t match someone else’s idea of “normal.”
PROCESS
Have a beautiful day...