The World We Offer To The Next Generation

WE START HERE.. WE END THERE. WHATEVER WE CHOOSE TO DO IN BETWEEN IS THE WORLD WE OFFER THE NEXT GENERATION

This little one will be coming into the world next March. Children born today are expected to live over one hundred years on average. One hundred years ago it was only half that.

The world that this child will be born into is hardly conducive to a beautiful life right now. Will there be enough food, clean air and water in fifty years? Will higher education be available to the average citizen? Will science be able to keep up against diseases. Can our natural resources support another 2 billion new lives by 2075? We do not have those answers today. However, we do have the power however to create a better world right where we are starting inside of our own hearts and minds. He will learn whatever we teach him. What is the message that we are sending out to the world after we are no longer here ourselves? The values and dreams he will believe are the ones we fel are worth living for. What is the definition of love, of compassion and selflessness that he will understand? Will he strive to make the world a better place or will he grab everything he can for himself? You already know the answer by what you teach him.

Buried in graveyards. They all had dreams. They were born just like the little one will be next March. They had good times and bad times. If they were born in 1910 they were expected to live about 48 years. Whatever they hoped to accomplish had a very loud ticking clock. Today we expect to live well into our 80s. We have more time, more opportunities with the advent of the world wide web,. Social media can connect us to anyone in the world in a second. Medicine can cure diseases on an out-patient basis which a hundred years ago were fatal. More inventions advancing mankind have been created in the last sixty years than all the years before. We have the power, the resources and the ability to be great by any standard. Why is it that, for most people, their days will be spent earning a living, because that is what every generation before us did.? Why is it that people will stream NetFlix all weekend, text friends endlessly and drink or drug into oblivion in the greatest age mankind has ever known? With the power to know, become and to do almost anything with limitlessness, why do we allow time to drift away from us? We have too few tomorrows and too many yesterdays.