To console oneself with what one transmits is to hide from oneself that one will no longer be there to enjoy it.

Objects to

Grant that we receive everything from the past. It remains to ask what it is worth, for the life one has to live, to turn first toward what precedes and follows us.
For of transmission I will not see the fruit: when my legacy bears, I will no longer be there. To devote myself to it is to live for a time from which I am absent, and to entrust my worth to what will happen without me.
One may see in it a last ruse against death: failing to endure, one dreams of surviving in one's children, one's work, one's line. But to face one's own end, , is to understand that no one dies in my place, and that this time allotted to me is mine to live, not my heirs'.

Therefore So to devote oneself to transmission can soften the thought of vanishing, but at the cost of a detour: one busies oneself with the afterward so as not to have to inhabit the now, the only time still ours.

Deepenings

Living for the afterward

Care for posterity is ancient and noble, one plants trees whose shade one will not see, and no one scorns it. The only question is whether it should govern a whole life.
For it can serve as an alibi: one leaves it to the inheritance to give meaning to days one did not know how to live oneself, and transmission then becomes what it claimed to avoid, a way of passing one's own life by.

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