[MENTION=1094]TAE[/MENTION] you speak of perspective. What kind of world do you see your grandchildren living in? .
Like you having grown up in a time when TV was a new thing, party lines were still a thing, stereo did not exist, man had not escaped the bondage of earth, multiple wars, riots, protest, senseless mass murders, The president of the most powerful nation in the world assassinated, A president tells us he was not a crook and then it turns out he was, A Hollywood movie star becomes a president...(and not do too bad a job).., a president that thinks a blow job isn't sex...and of course our ever lovable tweeting Commander leading us down the path of final ruination powered by probably the greatest innovation of our lifetime the Big Brother internets and the Gates / Jobs / Wozniak thingamajiggy's that let us maneuver our way down the road to hell known as the world wide web....Brother the things we've seen...
My hands are quite unique, huge in fact for my size. If I had a buck for every time I was asked how in the world do you play the piano with those mits I'd be a wealthy man. My Mom told me a story of when I was a baby and she would hold me and look at those big ol hands and wonder what are these hands going to do..where are they going to take my precious son in this crazy world we are moving into.
So here we are in 2020 and I look at my grand kids hands in wonder...These kids are such a joy, so innocent, kind, smart ...how can I protect them from this evil world...Their parents will try, the wife n I will try but they are in for a crazy ride as they evolve into grown adults....There is so much bad going on. It breaks my heart that for them Covid-19 is their "President Kennedy has been assassinated" moment....
It was Socrates that started the youth of today will be the ruin of the world "perspective" and for 100's generations it has been reiterated...
He said....
“The children now love luxury; they have bad manners, contempt for authority; they show disrespect for elders and love chatter in place of exercise. Children are now tyrants, not the servants of their households. They no longer rise when elders enter the room. They contradict their parents, chatter before company, gobble up dainties at the table, cross their legs, and tyrannize their teachers.”
And so it goes....
They will be the ruination of society as we know it.....and maybe that's not such a bad thing..
I have to honestly admit that what is in store for them to me is both very scary and exciting. As artificial intelligence evolves God only knows...I watch them play their virtual games and just go damn that's a lot more interactive than sitting down with my Cheerios or Rice Krispies and watching the Mickey Mouse club....
Of course like any parent I only want them to live a long healthy life, be fulfilled, love and be loved and to leave this place a better place for them being here.
My Mom could have never dreamed what those hands she pondered about would do...what those eyes would see..For sure she was smarter than me so I surrender to the precept that what will come about in the next 50 years as my gene pool propagates is waaaay beyond my wildest imagination. I can only hope the best and do my best to equip them as best I can, while I can. So I invest the most valuable asset I have in them as best I can....Time
It saddens me when I think of my daughters as old ladies and the harsh reality that I will be long gone, just be a memory. I can't be there to take care of them, fix a door knob, dry a tear...give them a hug..It becomes even sadder when I think of all the times I won't be there for my grand kids...what I'll miss out on. They are my legacy entrusted to me by God as I understand him and so into God's hands I leave them.
We humans are resilient creatures...It is a crazy world and has always been...mans inhumanity to man is the dark side of the coin and it has been there since Nanook decided that Uba Gooba with the green teeth's wife was really hot so he killed Uba Gooba with a big rock, took his wife and made babies with her...We are Nanooks descendants
We are the diaspora of conquerors, the strong one wins, the weak ones die...
I wrote this when I was 18...
It is inevitable that someday the earth will die
But if life from somewhere else should look down and wonder why
Let us leave no trace
That the cause of the death was the human race
I hope and pray that is the case...