This is a post adapted from one of my Daddy Diaries blog posts for tesh.com
This is not a political rant. We don’t do political rants on Tesh.com. But it does have to do with politics, and
it’s something that’s been on my mind as a Dad.
The election is over.
The ads are off the air. The robocalls
have stopped. The hate has (sort of)
begun to recede. It doesn’t matter who
you voted for, I hope you voted. If your
people won, good for you. If they lost,
I’m sorry. If you didn’t vote, you
missed your chance to do something that could have made a difference, and
that’s a shame.
We all have a challenge ahead of us as parents now that the
election is over and we can concentrate on our lives and families. Think of OUR parents, whether they were from
the World War II era or the Vietnam era.
They all worked hard, often for the same company most of their adult
life, to make sure WE had a better life than they did. They knew the world could be better and tried
their best to make it that way, not always for them, but always for us, their
children.
Despite their best intentions and hard work, the world may
not be better for their children, otise known as US, than they would have
wanted it to be. It’s not their fault,
it’s not our fault, there’s no time to be pointing fingers to whose fault it is. As someone I used to work with often said,
“it is what it is”.
Every generation has wanted the next generation to have a
better life than theirs. I don’t hear
people of my generation talking about that very often, often because we’re
trying to figure out how to make our own lives better and not thinking about
our children. It’s a new world in a
million different ways, ways our parents could have never predicted. It’s not simple, it’s not perfect, but it is
what it is. And it’s the world our kids
are growing up in, the world we’re supposed to be making better for them.
So we’re finished with all the partisanship and
electioneering for four more years. What
about the next forty years? Or the next
eighty years? What are you doing to make
sure the world that our kids inherit from us is better than the world we live
in right now? Stop and think about
it. I’m guessing you can do more. Let me know how you’re going to make the
world better for your children, and THEIR children, in the comments below.
