I'm not saying it as an inherently negative or depressing thing - it can be, in certain ways, but in others its simply an accommodation.
At 19 I was studying photography, my theoretical path was grad school, teaching, gallery shows. (Except I was studying at a state school with no juice in the art world so... not really.) At 38, I'm saving up for my first good camera in a while - my path is more sociology than gallery. I want to document the disappearing human landscape.
I never had an active desire for children - it's more a recognition that even if things lined up for the right forever relationship, socioeconomic status and age make them less plausible.
I'm not saying it as an inherently negative or depressing thing - it can be, in certain ways, but in others its simply an accommodation.
At 19 I was studying photography, my theoretical path was grad school, teaching, gallery shows. (Except I was studying at a state school with no juice in the art world so... not really.) At 38, I'm saving up for my first good camera in a while - my path is more sociology than gallery. I want to document the disappearing human landscape.
I never had an active desire for children - it's more a recognition that even if things lined up for the right forever relationship, socioeconomic status and age make them less plausible.