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harmonizewithechoes · 3 years

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(Video by @renegadescienceteacher on tiktok)

This video is making me Feel things that I can barely put words to

I of course had to grab some pen and paper and map out multiple generations after this. 10 generations ago is 512 people. 15 generations ago is 16,000 people. And if you go back 25 generations?

That’s 16,777,216 people. Over 16 MILLION people who lived and loved and had babies that had lived and loved and had babies that lived and loved and had babies and so on and so forth until you were born and made it to where we could all exist at the same time right now.

If any one of those people had had a different life that didn’t involve having kids you would not be here today. That is an absolutely wild concept to think about. Even if I don’t know the names of more than around 20 or so people- even though I have no idea who past that is connected to me- each and every single one of those people was important to me because they made it so that I could exist today.

If they were important enough to still be impacting the world today, long after the world has forgotten their names, then maybe I have some importance as well?

#idk though #the jury is still out on that one #importance of any kind? me? I refuse to accept it #no but thinking about the people who lived and died before me so that I could be here now is making me super emotional #and I really don’t know how to describe it #also how many of those people overlap with my friends? that would be a cool thing to find out even though we’ll never truly know #how many generations would I have to go back to have someone in common with my favorite actor? or favorite author?#it’s wild #I’ve thought about it before but never in this much detail #also I know that tiktok puts the names of the creators in a watermark thing on the video #but sometimes they’re hard to read so I like to be sure to give credit #this is the 4th video in a row on tt that had the message “you’re more important than you realize”’’#and they were all about very different things #still a hard concept to wrap my mind around tbh #it’s just easier to think that my life has no impact and that it makes no difference whether I’m here or not #it makes the ‘easy way out’ a more viable option for one day in the future if things go really sideways and I can’t see the point anymore #if I believe my life has some kind of value that makes it infinitely harder to leave #and my depression riddled brain loves to keep that option in my back pocket at all times #I’m fine btw! I’m not in an unsafe mindset or anything #I’ve just been so depressed for so long that my brain is kind of hardwired to think about the ‘easy way out’ when things are difficult #or even when I’m mildly inconvenienced 🙄

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