There is a picture I saw on Facebook earlier today that caught my eye. I haven’t been able to find it again, but maybe you’ve seen it: a young girl is sitting on the ground and smiling, her pregnant stomach very prominent. There is some text below it, which basically says that she used to live her life recklessly (drugs, sex, etc.) but, now that she was pregnant she was going to change just for her child.

Please. If you think that squirting a living being from your loins is all it takes to suddenly turn you into Model Citizen Of The Year, you really have another thing coming. You’re a teenager, still just a child yourself. The lifestyle you chose for yourself could not put you in any sort of comfortable position. Whatever pressures there were to go about doing what you did are only going to be magnified when your child enters the world.

Teenagers love trying to overthrow the status quo. Teenagers love thinking they’re responsible. Teenagers love hearing people say you can’t and trying to prove them wrong. I’m only 22; I was a teenager myself not too long ago. But taking care of just yourself at that age is difficult enough. What makes you think you can suddenly take care of two people?

It’s really noble and cute to think, “Oh, I’ll show them! I’ll be the best mother ever!”
But you already admitted that you couldn’t help but screw up your own life.

I pray for your child.

Littering is bad practice.
Always hold true to your Social Responsibilities. Uphold the law, display good conduct, and always be aware!

A Marking of The Hours, 2012 May 3