At one point, I actually wanted to have kids, but now, as time has progressed, I don’t at all. Financial issues and time commitment are both major issues.

I’ve realized I start to get a bit of a visceral response when I see stuff like this. It seems like such a slap in the face.

She, and many of her subjects, see a country hobbled by relentless individualism: people turning inward, pursuing their own happiness and success instead of investing in others. “Maybe what ails us is not our freedom per se, but something we mistake for freedom—being detached from family obligations, which are actually the demands that save us from egoism and despair,” she writes.

Stuff like this gets me. I’ve been helping myself and my parents stay afloat lol. But naww it’s people being selfish right?