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A Foundation of Hope

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?
2019Beverly

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!

Won't you join me?http://superstructgame.org/SuperstructView/370

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  • PonyXpress
    Oct 18
    Another outstanding view from this dedicated insightful SEHI.
  • Mister Edgeworth
    Oct 18
    Just because they are young does not mean children are not insightful. In fact, there has been a study (http://esciencenews.com/articles/2008/07/11/children.are.naturally.prone.be.empathic.and.moral) showing that children are predisposed to morality and empathy. So include the kids on 'grown up talk' and be surprised at what they suggest.
  • Megiddo Tel
    Oct 18
    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
  • 2019Beverly
    Oct 18
    Because I belive Hope is a very important issue for children and for ourselves I have created a new Struct called the Foundation of Hope. I hope you will join me there. http://superstructgame.org/SuperstructView/370 PonyX, MisterE, Meg I am adding you as collaborators.
  • Ruud Dirven
    Oct 18
    Sorry, I don't have or want kids, my survival is more important than theirs.
  • 2019Beverly
    Oct 18
    If you are thinking of your survival Ruud, then you must have hope!
  • futuryst
    Oct 18
    It's great to find others thinking like this, Beverly. I know many folks have (as a kind of survival strategy, I guess) just shut themselves off from the concerns of the next generation completely, in order to concentrate on their own interests. It's understandable, in some ways, but I still find it tragic. Before the GEAS report, me and my wife had been talking about kids, because we're both in our late 30s and getting to the "do or die" (morbid pun unintended) part of our lives, as far as children are concerned. And now there's this horrifying predicament for anyone with children, as well as anyone thinking about having them. My good friend mrjudkins recently had to decide how to tell his own kids (five and seven years old) that they might not live beyond thirty! http://superstructgame.org/StoryView/6 In terms of lifespan, it's like this nightmarish return to being as peasant in the middle ages. And of course, this time we're playing for keeps...
  • 2019Beverly
    Oct 19
    futuryst it is nice to see another SEHI here, just with your presence it shows me that you to have hope. I also know many who will never have children, and some who are thankful they do not...but even with that said they know of people - some who like you are good with friends with people who do have children . With the silent hope we all seem to carry in our hearts perhaps we can change the statement “might not live beyond thirty” to “you will live beyond thirty. And you will have a world worth living in.”
  • Lady21
    Oct 21
    "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!" This is so true. If we're not going to do it for any other reason, we should commit ourselves to a better world for the sake of future generations who deserve to inherit a better legacy. In my profession, we value partnership and relationship building, particularly within families and kin groups. All generations, those who are handing the world over and those who are inheriting it, should work together in fighting for a better future.
  • 2019Beverly
    Oct 22
    Hope is something that is very hard to ignore, and I agree Lady21 we do need to work together in fighting for a better future. I cannot help but wonder though if our idea of a better future really is better. There does not seem to be that many that carry a shimmer of hope. Perhaps they are still struggling with life and are thinking they are ok without it. Perhaps they are lost and waiting to be found. Perhaps they are too afraid to acknowledge their own hope for fear someone will take what little they have left of it away. Perhaps part of the fight is bringing the people together in their own minds so that they too can discover what it is like to have hope.
  • mudmama
    Oct 23
    I'd like to suggest that Foundation of Hope collaborate with 21st Century Wonder tales as well. While I do NOT in any way believe it is in children's best interest to think about extinction or be involved in intellectual discussions or projections on the superthreats they ARE empathic and we need to meet them where they are developmentally. That is what Wonder Tales is all about.
  • 2019Beverly
    Oct 29
    http://superstructgreene.yuku.com/directory --- Lets take it beyond today and into tomorrow!
  • thekidoftommorw
    Oct 31
    Thank you for telling me about this group you have saved my life check out my story (click on my name) I am on a long journey to find them across australia (450 miles to go I have traveled 50 miles in the last 3 days) God Bless and many thanks, Sam
  • 2019Beverly
    Nov 05
    Good Luck Sam!