I respect folks’ personal choices. I am a father, and I have discovered myself being very happy now than before. We are happily married couple, yet it is very different when you have a child. I do not necessarily agree with the reasons provided, if it was for me, but everyone is different and free to be so.

But what I admire the comments so far is that you all are questioning ‘Why Not’. In our cultures, people live their whole lives only to keep their family, or the society at large, happy. The family values of the East is a treasure, I am not discrediting that. Personal happiness is also something. What Nepalese people tend to disgrace Westerners as ‘too individualists’ or right out ‘selfish’, one would have to recognize that they were not historically this way. Any reasonable person would be asking how did these societies evolve this way they way they did, and perhaps deduce a trajectory of future of our great Nepalese culture. 

Bravo to mavericks!