As I was getting ready for my ‘travels’ last night I got to thinking about the little ones in our immediate flock. The girls are now 21 (almost 22) and 23, the boy 10 (almost 11). When did I blink for them to be this old already? Was it not just an hour ago the girls were young teenagers and the boy just a baby? Where did their childhood go?
Then when I was out and about last night I started to understand. As parents, grandparents, aunts and uncles we got so busy living life we forgot to live! Somewhere along the way we forgot what it was like to be a child.
As we fight for our future survival we have to remember that our world today is our children’s reality. They are not thinking ahead in time like we are – they are wondering why we don’t have time today!
It appears that in our rush to ensure we all have a future we have forgotten who we are fighting for! I would like to make a plea to everyone to look down. Look beside you. Look across the street. See that little person there? The big eyes and the scared look belong to them. As you continue to whisper about solutions with your partner, with your friends, coworkers, neighbors don’t forget who is listening. Don’t leave that little person in the shadows, for it is him or her you are fighting for.
As you busy yourself with your everyday tasks, are you so busy living life that you are forgetting to live? When was the last time you sat down and listened to the children in your life? What are you doing today to shape this little person so he does not repeat the same mistakes we have made over the years? Are you so full of despair and urgency that you are forgetting to teach, forgetting to love, forgetting to live?
These little people are the ones that will be taking over when our work here is done, it is them that will have to live in the world that we have created – ask yourself this, is this future world one I want the children I love to live in?
Can you put yourself on the backburner for one day in order to ensure this crazy world of ours has a chance at a real future?
I stumbled across a new group in my travels last night. It is called Future Heroes located at http://superstructgame.org/SuperstructView/342 .
If you have a child, know a child, care for and love a child I would like to challenge you to join up. Not for yourself but for the children.
We cannot even begin to build anything without a strong foundation.
Without a strong foundation anything we build will eventually crumble and fall.
Encourage the children in your life to work towards the badges offered, offer your services to this group knowing that you will be building a strong foundation – A foundation that we can build on.
A foundation that will help us survive! A foundation of hope!
During a crisis in 2007, we adopted a term for members of the extended community that needed some extra attention. We call this group the Fragile. Included in this group were the very old, the very young, the sick, and the animals. So often in a crisis this group is forgotten. It is nice to see that there is a superstruct forming to address at least some of this population.
Megiddo
Comment by Megiddo Tel — October 18, 2019 @ 8:41 am