Society had evolved, so they told us through education. I was five years old when I was chosen, I had spent my life, like all the other Growns, suspended in a Sustain Chamber, my brain stimulated by a sophisticated Neural Network, feeding information into my brain, giving me experiences and knowledge compariable to my age. Inside the Sustain Chamber I learnt how to live, without using the world's precious few resources. Childbirth had become a problem years ago, now, to control population growth and to ensure only the best of human potential went forward, we were grown, bred in the Sustain Chambers. Prospective parents would be chosen at random by a lottery, they could then choose from thousands of available candidates, the process took months as the new parents would search for their perfect child. My parents short listed four children for selection, we were all brought into the viewing room where we showed our prospective guardians why they should pick each of us. Of course, to us, we were playing, talking, being ourselves, we didn't realise we were performing for the right to exist in the real world, loved by real people, stimulated by taste, touch, smell and vision. I remember being very tired, very quickly, the fact that I had never used my real body until those few hours was the cause. As my father carried me away, whispering in my ear as I rested on his shoulder, my mother began crying, sobbing hysterically with joy that she was finally, after all these years, picked by the state computer to have a child of her own. As we left together, I remember hearing the other children, they were crying, they knew they were heading back into the Sustain Chambers. When I was older, I asked my mother and father what happened to the other children, to all the ones who weren't chosen, they didn't know, nobody knew.