Abby Connolly
“My friends noticed how I [was] enjoying my dessert and not contributing to their conversation about how sad they feel for the baby and how it’s making their heartache,” she recalled.
“They were having some sort of ‘physical reaction’ to the baby crying. I [told] them I didn’t hear the baby cry anymore. They asked me if I had a hearing issue, so I explained how it was like background noise to me after the first ten seconds.”
Kim and Ann gave her horrified looks and suddenly bit her head off. Kim told me it was a good thing she wasn’t going to have children because she was “heartless,” Ann told her she felt bad that she wasn’t experiencing the same feelings as them.
She couldn’t help but laugh, thinking Kim was simply joking around and Ann was being a bit hormonal due to her pregnancy. But then, her friends got angrier, telling her it wasn’t a laughing matter.
At first, she tried justifying her friends’ behavior by acknowledging that Kim is going through a tough time and Ann is in a special condition with her pregnancy. However, the more she’s thought about the situation, the more ridiculous she’s found their reactions.
“Kim texted me today saying that I need to start showing a little more concern towards crying children if I am to spend time with her future children,” she added.
Unlike her friends, she believes that just because she can physically bear children doesn’t mean she should break out in tears whenever she hears a random baby cry.
Should she feel bad for ignoring the crying baby, or were her friends being unfair?
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