I've always found it strange that people treat a baby, a human being, as a desperate attempt to boost their reputation and vicariously extend their lives into the future. As if a person having similar genes to you is worth anything. Your legacy after you die is made up of all the good things you've done personally throughout your life, it doesn't extend into everything your children do. Even if it did though, it'd be the fact that you raised them to be that incredible that would count, not the fact that they have similar genes to you.
Besides, even if your child did go on to become famous one day, people still wouldn't give a fuck about you, they'd only care about them. People would only ever remember you for being just the parent of ________, and you'd look worse when compared to them than if you were remembered for something small that you actually did.
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I've always found it strange that people treat a baby, a human being, as a desperate attempt to boost their reputation and vicariously extend their lives into the future. As if a person having similar genes to you is worth anything. Your legacy after you die is made up of all the good things you've done personally throughout your life, it doesn't extend into everything your children do. Even if it did though, it'd be the fact that you raised them to be that incredible that would count, not the fact that they have similar genes to you.
Besides, even if your child did go on to become famous one day, people still wouldn't give a fuck about you, they'd only care about them. People would only ever remember you for being just the parent of ________, and you'd look worse when compared to them than if you were remembered for something small that you actually did.