We all have friends, or at least had some friends. If you don't you might be a genuine bad person and you should get some professional help. Friends are people who can make your life meaningful. However, they have their own lives, own friends, own desires and everything. They can leave you by yourself the moment you need them the most.
This is why...
<h1>Children are better than friends</h1>
![Children are awesome](http://i.imgsafe.org/1f15e2920a.jpg)
<h3>Differences</h3>
Your friends are different. They might have different desires and opinions than you, which is typically ok, but may cause trouble. What if you want to eat pizza and your friends are more interested in tacos? Your evening will be ruined, as you will have to bend to the will of many. 

If you would have children instead, you can make the decision yourself! Hooray. The only problem is that you'll have to pay for everybody's pizza, but you can eat most of your children's pizza as long as they are young. 
![Boo, friends suck](http://i.imgsafe.org/1f0cba3e80.jpg)

Have you ever been ashamed of your friends? One can't dress properly, one of your friends dyed his hair pink and cyan. One of your friends hasn't showered in a week and smells like garlic and death.

If they were your children, you could tell them what they can wear, do with their hair and when to shower. No need to be ashamed before your children will become teenagers. Even then, they are more ashamed of you than you are ashamed of them, so you are still winning. 

A quite long time you can tell your children what they are and can be. You can't tell your friends what they should be, but luckily, your children have to listen. Even if they hate you. Easy.


![Your friends have different plans. A shame](http://i.imgsafe.org/1f26b061e7.jpg)
<h3>Priorities</h3>
Your friends have a life of their own. You might want to play soccer with them, but your friends are going out with their family/girlfriends/boyfriends/etc. and so you can't play any soccer. You can kick the ball alone, but we all know how it is. In your deepest desires, you would want to kick your friends for not having you as the top priority.

If you would have children instead, they couldn't make any plans without you. Or if they made, they would have to cancel all the plans! Your son was going to see his girlfriend, but he has to cancel it because "Dad wants to play football". Yay for sports and not being alone! You want to go fishing, but your daughter is going to meet the family.. but luckily, you are the family! Yay, your daughter has to go fishing with you. You are the top priority, the number one. Way to go!


![Friends still suck](http://i.imgsafe.org/1f1dc3e22d.jpg)
<h3>Losing friends</h3>
If your friends don't like you, they can cut off all the ties and never speak to you again. It can happen even if you don't know what went wrong. This is sad, but it happens to most of us. Trying to contact your lost friend and asking what went wrong won't help, as your lost friend isn't talking to you. Boo-hoo.

If you would have children instead, they can never get completely rid of you! You are in their DNA. If something goes so bad they will cut off ties with you, your daughter will see her image in mirror after 25 years and think "I look just like mother!" - and she's kind of still with you. Yay. 
When your children are young, they'll have to live with you. When they move away, they have to come and meet you! If they were only friends, they wouldn't travel across the country to meet you on every holiday. Now they are your children and they have to.

Your children are so much better than your friends. And you'll be in their life as long as you all live. We all know this bulls**t because we too have parents and they're still bothering us all the time with all kinds of stupid things.

![Babies are weak](http://i.imgsafe.org/1f2a8ab2f0.jpg)

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