me_irl

Asexual, sex-repulsed, intersex. Bloodline stops with me for like all the reasons.

But where a bloodline ends, freezer burrito consumption begins.

Each generation back from yours has a higher chance of not having their genetic lineage ended by you not procreating. Most people will have siblings so won't even be the end of their parents lineage, even less will be the end of their grandparents, I'd be surprised if there was anyone that could end the lineage of their great grand parents. Depending on your circumstances I'd say the only ancestors you have to worry about disappointing in a genetic propagation sense are your parents, and that's only if you have no siblings.

They lived at a time when there was no planet-level reason not to have kids. You don't. Swap places and the behaviors swap. This isn't because of you.

At least not statistically.

This is only true if you don’t follow the female branches on the family tree.

It is pretty crazy to think that for literally thousands of years, every single ancestral pairing, going all the way back to the first lil mud skippers that flopped up on land, have decided to produce offspring, which is ultimately the only reason you're even alive today.

And when it's your turn to uphold the unbroken tradition dating back millennia, you're just like 'naaaaaaah, fuck that yo'????

Honestly that's fuckin awesome! The point of life is your own personal experience, and you should absolutely do everything you can to push it in the direction of your choosing, tradition be damned. ✌️

OP: meh.

Yeah: Your ancestors are all watching, cheering you on, saying:

“We NEVER wanted children. FINALLY one of us broke the cycle!!”

I feel attacked

also japanese. also didn't inherit the hardwired instinctual urge to pass on my genes ¯\__(ツ)__/¯

Jokes' on my ancestors, we've been getting through a bottleneck for the last 3 generations. All only children... at least on my mum's side, my dad's side's not faring much better with my generation and our kids