"Each man owes a debt to his family, his country and his species to leave sons and daughters who will lead, inspire and create." ~Louis L'Amour Sackett's Land

How often does society try to teach against having families and then list dozens of reasons why.

Some common reasons include:
"Families are expensive."
"Think about yourself. You don't want to spend the rest of your life as a slave to your children!"
and the tree-hugger "families leave to big of a carbon print and are therefore bad for nature!"

What we must realize however is that there is one common truth that all men must except about life. And that is that eventually every one of us will die. Therefore, while we are alive we ought to offer as much to the prosperity and goodness in society as we can while we are members of it, but if we do not set things in order so that our contribution will continue on, then our contribution may only be remembered for a time but will one day be forgotten.Therefore

"Each man owes a debt to his family, his country and his species to leave sons and daughters who will lead, inspire and create."

or to continue to give that contribution to society.

So let us then ask ourselves "When my mortal body dies, will I have paid my debt? And will my name continue to live in the lives of my posterity?"

 I hope mine does.

-CarsonKG