Bundles of Sufferings

82-year-old Ting Ah Moi made headlines when she pined for 67-year-old Khong Chee Fook, a married temple priest. In a press conference, the former expressed her love for the latter, saying that she had only eyes for him but the priest merely meditated. He would have nothing to do with her.Ting lives alone and claims that her surviving children had abandoned her, too. Just a few days ago, a friend told of a Buddhist couple who work and play hard but choose not to have children. The couple claim having children tantamounts to bringing them to a world of samsara. That, I suppose is a Buddhist influence, a negative one, perhaps; but with the demands made by children nowadays, maybe having children means suffering not so much to the children but to the parents themselves. Then of course, we often hear of children being called bundles of joys and not bundles of sufferings, don't we?