David Smith:
CLASS OF 1976
Seymour High SchoolClass of 1976
Seymour, IN
David's Story
I never felt ready in my life to have kids. When I was young, not even adult yet, I just wanted to be with adults and have fun. I wanted to be loved. To learn and experience all the different ways adults could give and receive affection, pleasure, and good times. That's all I ever wanted.
The adult human body, well cared for, is a wonderful thing to have, share, and explore. The complexities it is capable of are beautiful, artistic, and precious. The primative limitations that religious people impose on it should be a crime.
But, from the beginning, my body was booby-trapped to make babies, which I never wanted. And they cost me a tremendous amount of money I never wanted to spend. In total just for child support and...Expand for more
yearly docket fees it was $272,501. And very little of any of that entire experience was good, healthy, or rewarding.
If I had life to do over again, I would get a vasectomy on my 18th birthday and have the urologist cut each side twice, cauterize both ends and the sheath space in between so there would never be a chance for reversal, accidental or intentional, just like the one I finally went to did. My life would have been so much better if I had done that.
Life is okay now. I have my freedom, my health, and my sanity. I'm not so young anymore, but I feel and perform a lot better than I ever dreamed I would at my age. Life now is FAR better than the unintentional awkward one I used to live. And that says a lot.
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