(09-27-2023, 12:09 AM)NightskyeB4Dawn Wrote: Us Baby Boomers were born between 1946 and 1964. That makes all of us between 59 and 77 years old. The majority that have children, their children are grown. We don't have much time to rein in or correct the mess we have made. We are dropping like flies. And being negative again, we are not getting much better. I am trying to plan for the time when I may need total care. I truly pray that I am gone from this Earth long before that time may occur, but if by some horrible miracle I am still here, I don't want to be a burden for my family, so I am making plans to avoid that from happening.
I admit that I have little faith that we are going to be able to make things better with the little time that we have left. I also admit that while my status today is quite negative, I do hope that all will play out as it was written. I am not looking forward to still being Earth bound when the SHTF.
That's the thing. WE don't fix the messes we made, any more than our parents fixed the messes they left us, or their parents fixed their own messes. It's up to our kids to fix our messes, just like we had to make the corrections to fix our parents' messes, and so on down through history. I can't think of any generation that fixed it's own messes - it was always their kids that fixed their messes.
It's a function of the human lifetime and physiology. As we age, we find ourselves less able to fix what we broke, so it's always left up to the next generation.
I'll admit they have a hell of a mess to fix, part of which was created by them anyhow, and so will be left to their kids, our grand-kids, to fix. What WE can do, and only us, is to train those kids what to fix, and how. Teach them how to think, and what is important to think about, and how to go about prioritizing the litany of things that need fixing.
That's our job - not fixing the mess, but giving the next generation the tools they will need to fix it.
And so it goes on, down through the ages.
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