I’m proud of our kids and spouses and the lives they’ve carved out for themselves. Hard-working in their jobs, dedicated and kind, attentive parents trying to raise their children with the right mix of oversight and free range.
I guess what concerns me is that the youngest generation is growing up in a world that really doesn’t have its shit together. What is their world gonna look like in 5 or 10 or 20 years? What’s on tap for their future?
We can only control what’s going on in the household, I guess, though one might hope that what is taught in the home that is good and wise has a way of seeping into the wider community and changing a corner of the world.
It seems there are always forces at work that are so much bigger than any one family. Impersonal, evil, self-satisfying, the opposite of altruistic, with little interest in shared victories and progress. It might infuriate a person to think that so much energy and will are focused on narrow agendas with such misplaced intensity.
What kind of world will today’s children inherit?
Sometimes it’s hard to think that we have to fight for everything. Why can’t there be a baseline of expectations and norms for how we treat one another? What is so difficult about live and let live? Why is it viewed as naïve to think that we could opt for cooperation and helping each other get through the day, instead of harboring suspicion and mistrust and just grabbing for what we think is ours, forcing our will, and to hell with everyone else?
The easier path, survival basics, I guess. Seems like we should be turning the corner on that way of thinking, if we are to exist as anything more than isolated clans and tribes.
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