I read 100 Years of Solitude. It must be a much better read in spanish…the english translation put me to sleep.
Re: Children. I am about as inherently narcissistic as they come and I have four buckaroos! While parenting is stressful and costly and burdensome and flat out hard, I can’t think of a more joyful, fulfilling honor. Parenting done responsibly forces the focus off of you and onto others and that in and of itself makes the world an incrementally better place.