Do Not Suicide Your Genealogy
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Suicide is polemic topic. It brings uncomfortable thoughts and mental images, it induces a defensive and reactive state of mind. But I'd like to criticize the common propaganda against suicide, and present a deeper level of it, which I adopt for myself.
The life is pain, sometimes feels like a curse, but giving up never was a strategy.
Extending the scope of the term
We might consider suicide in a simplistic view as "the act of ceasing the own [human] life by intention", but it can be wider.
If you consider the next generation after you as a natural and intended flow of the human life, inhibiting this behavior can be a suicide. And worse, it can be passive.
If you decide you'll be the end of your ancestor tree, you'll be passively killing your genealogy, cancelling your family from the earth.
If not the next generation, so what?
If everything has a end, what could be the most sustainable and long-lasting goal that survives after us? Or oversimplifying: Which is the safest investment for our finite energy?
Since a tool doesn't work without a operator, accumulating wealth doesn't solves this issue: once you go, the operator changes.
The only reliable agents existing in this reality are us, humans. The most advanced and powerful machine in this world, with the unique potential of increasing its worth by itself given time. And even after you gone, without the present operator, it can continue through its generations through bounds and aligned purpose.
I can't see any active with higher potential for growth than humans. Investing on it, we can even workaround the end of death, guiding the next team bring our flag even farther.
This is a joy for me, like "Eureka! I found my purpose."
Our flag going far
Our flag. Everyone have a limited time from a expected range of years to bring his own flag far as possible.
Even the world's most efficient man is not able to overcome this limitation: Some goals are simply larger than the time given to us.
Who can this efficient person trust after he goes? Who can grab his flag, carefully calibrate his navigator and continue his same journey?
I see only a option, our children. For sure they're not consequences, but our hope.
The efficient man can reliably teach his children through all his values and give them capability and motivation to continue the journey. So they can build the tower on top of the strong foundation, which his father left.
The end
Inherit the next generation from yours. The world in 100 years belongs to those who did this. Your legacy is what remains.
Do not kill your generation, you can choose to honor your ancestors.