This story is told by a user with the nickname "Lord-Xanthor" who lives in New York (USA).
“Recently, I had a serious conversation with my wife, during which I told her a story about why I did not want and was very afraid to have my own children for a long time.
Overall, I've always been very serious about this case. Even when I was 7 years old, my mother told me that when I grow up and have girls, I should always be very responsible and should not have a child if I don't have long-term plans for a future life with a partner.
At the age of 12, I already got a temporary job and delivered newspapers. And at the age of 16 I got an official job, and in the evening I worked part-time in a restaurant. I worked at this restaurant for two years and made friends with the staff, especially the boss who had two children.
The boss had a 7 year old girl and a 5 year old boy. On weekends, the boss would often bring them to the restaurant, and many of the staff would play with them to keep the kids from running around the hall and getting in the way.
I also played with them from time to time and I would say that they were quite smart for their age, and I also felt a little sorry for them, since I heard that their mother had died.
When I found myself a more paid job at another restaurant, I said goodbye to the boss and the staff and left there. 8 years have passed. The place where I worked was closed and I had to look for work again. In despair, I decided to return to the old restaurant where I had worked earlier and it turned out that there was only one person left of the former staff and he remembered me.
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When I started asking the staff about the former boss and his children, they all suddenly acted as if they had never heard of such a person before. This surprised me. Even if the boss quit, at least that one person should have remembered him.
In this place, I was eventually rejected and I went to look for work elsewhere and found it in a retail network. I worked there for the next two years and this is where the mystical and very incomprehensible part of this story begins. During my working day, my former boss suddenly entered the store (which was far enough from both my place of residence and the restaurant) and his two children with him.
And these children have not changed at all since the years that I saw them in the restaurant! They still looked like 7- and 5-year-olds. And the boss immediately recognized me and greeted me, and I greeted him too, and all this time he was looking at his children and they were looking at me, and there was fear in their eyes.
I tried to speak to the children, but they both jumped away silently and stared at their father. And I continued to clearly feel their fear. There was a feeling as if they realized that they were about to be caught and exposed and they really did not want this.
Their strange behavior scared me so much that it was then that I subconsciously decided that I did not want to have my own children. I didn't really understand why, but it was a very strong belief.
My store boss, meanwhile, noticed this strange scene when the children ran away from me like from a mad dog and called me asking what was happening. I went into the cubbyhole and explained that they were my old acquaintances, but for some reason the children behave in a strange way.
While I was chatting with the boss, my old boss and his children left the store. I never met them again and I never revealed this secret why his children looked as if they had not grown up for a year and what they were afraid of.
In the years that followed, I then met several former employees of that restaurant with whom I worked and who played with the children. And all of them every time bewilderedly asked me about who I was talking about when I asked them about the boss and his children. None of them remembered them!
Now I have two of my own children, who are growing up like all ordinary children. I am happy that I nevertheless decided on their appearance and am happy that someday they will give me grandchildren."