"I don't like babies"

"I don't like babies".

There. It has been said. 

Trying to explain (usually to a woman) why you do not like babies is futile. Especially at my age. If only people were more logical about that whole thing.

Just do it

"Just do it!".

As an obsessive fitness and health freak, I can see how this moto is great advice for putting on your runners and getting out the door at 5am in the morning when it is so cold that you can not feel your nose. Just do it.

But when it comes to having a child, I find this advice reckless and irresponsible.

"I'm too intelligent to have children"

"I'm too intelligent to have a child".

I am positive that at some point in my 30 years of wandering often aimlessly around this rock, I would have said this. I was an outspoken child who was quite impetuous when it came to dealing out my strong opinions. Some people might argue that nothing has changed, but I would like to think I have been around long enough to have learnt some tact and diplomacy.

I'm never getting married

"I'm never getting married".

This is a statement I have asserted with conviction frequently and without apology for the vast majority of my life.