For Anyone That Is Struggling Today

oldngrumpy

In order to be born, you needed:

• 2 parents
• 4 grandparents
• 8 great-grandparents
• 16 second great-grandparents
• 32 third great-grandparents
• 64 fourth great-grandparents
• 128 fifth great-grandparents
• 256 sixth great-grandparents
• 512 seventh great-grandparents
• 1,024 eighth great-grandparents
• 2,048 ninth great-grandparents

For you to be born today from 12 previous generations, you needed a total sum of 4,094 ancestors over the last 400 years.

Think for a moment – How many struggles? How many battles? How many difficulties? How much sadness? How much happiness? How many love stories? How many expressions of hope for the future? – did your ancestors have to undergo for you to exist in this present moment…

Just needed to post this, incase anyone is struggling with life.

Hope you all have a good weekend 😊

66Mustang

Not trying to be negative, as I enjoyed reading your thread.

However, if one was to employ this same line of thought, but sort of in reverse... the 7-odd billion people alive today only technically needed two people to create them all, if you go back far enough.

All the pain and suffering of billions in the future just so 2 people could have a good time for a few minutes

But likewise, all the billions of positive things that would go on to happen as well.

Hannah_Alumni

Thank you for sharing @oldngrumpy Your post has actually put my ancestry research in perspective for me! I still have a long way to go...

WhatThe

Magnificent    thank you