"Why does it retain its power to chill? I don't think it's about fear of distraction or domesticity. I think it's a fear of babies. Being a parent – or really loving someone other than yourself, whether that's your children, parents or your lover – forces you to confront a horrible truth: the fact that we get older. The amazing boy who was born when I was still a student is a man now. There is no way that I can still think of myself as "quite young, really" or "a child at heart". Parenthood confronts us with our own mortality, every day.

As a society, we are in flight from our own mortality."

I can definitely say that getting old scares the crap out of me. Especially since spending some time with my mom this weekend and seeing her aging and having difficulties with being old herself.

Thank you for the link.