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themaddahlia:
easyemma:
farmgirlandbutternut:
easyemma:
just-shower-thoughts:
If you don’t manage to have children in your lifetime, you are ending a bloodline which lasted, unbroken, for 3.8 billion years..
Now I feel even worse
(Butternut)
The burden of legacy is bullshit. I (and my polycule) are happily child-free. We take care of each other. We take care of our friends and loved ones, of our community and, some of us, patches of gorgeous land. I believe I was put on this earth to experience it, by chance, as another of evolution’s beautiful creations. I have zero responsibility to carry on my genes or those of anyone else and, in fact, having kids isn’t in the best interest of my self-ordained responsibility to take are of the world I’ve been so lucky to experience.
The people who should have kids are the ones who know they want them, crave them, and want to dedicate the enormous amount of time and energy it takes to raise them. Other folks should be given the resources and tools to break free of this notion that we are responsible to pro-create.
It’s also worth it to mention that there are so many ways to contribute to “legacy” on this planet: helping friends who need a hand with their kids, volunteer to help run a youth program, participate in research and surveys, use your talents and strengths to help build a better community and world for future generations, leave your body to science when you pass away or just appreciate the small wonders of the world around you in a way that motivates you to protect them for the folks that come after us.
Yes! This! Thanks a lot 😘 😘 😘 😘
Never have kids because you feel pressured or expected to. Have them if you want to have kids. There’s nothing wrong with not having kids. Fuck the “legacy” bullshit, make a legacy of your own choosing.
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themaddahlia:
easyemma:
farmgirlandbutternut:
easyemma:
just-shower-thoughts:
If you don’t manage to have children in your lifetime, you are ending a bloodline which lasted, unbroken, for 3.8 billion years..
Now I feel even worse
(Butternut)
The burden of legacy is bullshit. I (and my polycule) are happily child-free. We take care of each other. We take care of our friends and loved ones, of our community and, some of us, patches of gorgeous land. I believe I was put on this earth to experience it, by chance, as another of evolution’s beautiful creations. I have zero responsibility to carry on my genes or those of anyone else and, in fact, having kids isn’t in the best interest of my self-ordained responsibility to take are of the world I’ve been so lucky to experience.
The people who should have kids are the ones who know they want them, crave them, and want to dedicate the enormous amount of time and energy it takes to raise them. Other folks should be given the resources and tools to break free of this notion that we are responsible to pro-create.
It’s also worth it to mention that there are so many ways to contribute to “legacy” on this planet: helping friends who need a hand with their kids, volunteer to help run a youth program, participate in research and surveys, use your talents and strengths to help build a better community and world for future generations, leave your body to science when you pass away or just appreciate the small wonders of the world around you in a way that motivates you to protect them for the folks that come after us.
Yes! This! Thanks a lot 😘 😘 😘 😘
Never have kids because you feel pressured or expected to. Have them if you want to have kids. There’s nothing wrong with not having kids. Fuck the “legacy” bullshit, make a legacy of your own choosing.
(Your picture was not posted)
