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Celebrating the Childfree Ones on Their Special Day — Some Personal Insights

Kemmy D
7 min readAug 1, 2019

Freedom is a choice, and for each individual, it comes in different forms. Financial freedom, independence, self-sufficiency, ability to travel, living off-the grid — name it and there are probably a zillion ways to define freedom. As we have been saying for quite sometime, the definition of freedom is ‘to each their own’.

But apart from all these people, there is a special group of people who chose to be childfree. Often classified as the ‘weird lot’ or the ‘crazy ones’, childfree individuals and couples are seen from the outside as people who are not normal. But in today’s world, we buy water in bottles, use ‘air purifiers’ to cleanse air, and do ‘body cleanses’ because we consume a lot of toxins in our food. Does any of this seem ‘normal’?

Choosing the Childfree Life

If the answer is no, then people who decide to be childfree are pretty normal too. There are many reasons why people choose to be childfree.

“Until I feel like my kid would live on an earth with fish in the water, I’m not bringing in another person to deal with that.”
- Miley Cyrus

The state of the environment, lack of funds to raise a child, avoiding guilt of creating suffering, and consciousness of population are some of the most…

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Kemmy D
Kemmy D

Written by Kemmy D

Dogs over humans. Coffee over Beer. Topics I write on include but are not limited to life, finance, motorsports and satire.

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