Deciding to have a child is like planning a trip to Australia.
The trip to Australia…
You’ve heard it’s a wonderful place, you’ve read a lot of guidebooks, and you feel ready to go.
Everyone you know has traveled there by plane and comments that it can be a turbulent flight with occasional forced landings, but you know that you are going to be pampered on that trip, so you go to the airport and ask at the counter for a ticket to Australia.
It seems that there is no room for you
You’ll have to wait for the next flight.
Impatient but knowing that it will be a wonderful flight. You wait, wait and wait…
Planes are constantly arriving and departing.
People tell you things like:
Relax, you’ll be on board soon! or you will see how others who were already on board decide at the last minute to cancel their flight, at which you will cry and shout: it’s not fair!
After a long time of waiting the agency tells you: I’m sorry, but it will be impossible for us to get you a flight to Australia, maybe you should think about going by boat.
By boat! You tell yourself, but going like this will take me a long time and will be very expensive and I have put all my heart into going there by plane.
Sad you go home and think maybe it’s a good idea not to make the trip.
You wonder if Australia is going to be so beautiful if you go there by boat, but you’ve dreamed of that trip so much that you finally decide to go there by sea.
It’s a long and difficult journey and no one spoils you.
You wonder if you will ever see the coast and in the meantime your friends have made several flights there talking wonders about the place.
Then, one glorious day, the ship docks in Australia
It is more exquisite than you had imagined and its beauty is magnified after such a long journey. You’ve made good friends on the crossing and found yourself comparing your story to that of other passengers.
People will continue to fly to Australia as often as they want, but you’ll only be able to sail there once, maybe twice and you’ll still have to hear things like:
How lucky! You didn’t have to fly! My flight was horrible, better to go by boat.
Meanwhile, you wonder what your flight to Australia would have been like.
But you know that you’ve been blessed with a new vision of place and that the beauty of Australia doesn’t lie in the way you get there, but in the place itself.
Taken from Red Infértiles
