“How can you have that many kids with the world the way it is?”

Each of us alive in this world, or rather I should say everything and everyone alive in this world, as near as we can tell, are descended through the billions of years of time and turmoil and change and growth down from the very first living organism ever to exist on this planet. There have been times when our distant ancestors resembled sludge in a puddle of ooze and lived happily in an atmosphere that would kill us weaker descendants within minutes. Through the years and the mutations our life’s code is prone to, our relatives, all the other living things on earth have changed and diverged along millions upon millions of different paths changing life into a wild array of forms and functions different and uniquely adapted to the ultimate self fulfilling purpose of propagating life from one generation to the next.The vast overwhelming majority of all of those diverse and amazing forms of life to which we are both fundamentally akin and simultaneously wildly different are already and irrevocably extinct. And yet, life has not failed on our planet ever once since it’s inception all those billions of years ago.And that, judgmental late 20 something lady in the grocery store tonight, is why We have so many kids. We have 5. I don’t care if you are so woke to the environment and overpopulation of the planet and whatnot that you choose to end your 4 billion year old legacy of life and survival by not having children yourself. I on the other hand cannot disregard such a weighty lineage.I have no illusions that humanity is the ultimate goal or end to the continual struggle for the continuation of life on this planet. I simply hope that in another billion years long after we as a species are utterly gone through evolution or catastrophe, my choice to have kids as part of what I do with my time on this speck of dust careening through space, might lead to the existence of some heat resistant methane and carbon dioxide breathing furry little rodent thing that will owe its existence to my decision to have kids. And life will go on in an environment that we would wilt in within moments.Also, at least two of the five were accidents, and I’ve had a vasectomy now so get off my back lady. via /r/Parenting https://ift.tt/35e9CiE