I never need friends in need of constant validation to their rank as a social identity by context over ancestral position of which generation they arrived living here now.
first generation is great great grandchild inception to extinction
second generation that same grandchild became 1 of 2 parents to another generation of great great grandchildren inception to conception
third generation is 1 of 4 grandparents to each arriving great great grandchild.
fourth generation is 1 of 8 great grandparents to each related great great grandchild fifth generation the originals became 1 of 16 great great grandparents after dying of old age or anytime after becoming 1 of 2 parents of arriving next generation of great great grandchildren
6th degree of separation, 7th degree is being the arrival of a great great grandchild whose DNA is 93.75% made up from 4 previous generations.
simple compounding DNA algorithm in series parallel displacements present or not. Kinetic self evident accounting to actual numbers present statistical averaging not necessary since it is a universal constant unless sustaining doubt.
Kinetic extinction arrives when next generation of great great grandchildren doesn't happen anymore now. Your reality is eyeballs deep in arranging that into fruition in the next decade.
Myself, I am just a little bird that fell out of the nest some cow shat on to keep me from freezing to death a coyote didn't get to eat because I was quite like all members of the fabled silent majority instinctively aware of their proportionately here life cycle.
As for the OP author, I am completely apathetic to your emotional insecurity. You spent a lifetime taking sides against actual life, now you benefit from that sacrifice of having screwed yourself so far.
Welcome to Eternity Hell of only living as biologically balancing total sum population in this atmosphere now. Highway to hell is paved with greater good intentions abusing the simple power of suggesting real isn't real designing humanity to cast doubt throughout history.