Mainstream media would keep telling you about putting yourself first above all else which often leads to thinking only about immediate gratification within one’s lifetime without thinking about the next generation.
This unsettling reality of short-termism got me thinking about how this generation has become lovers of self, which resonates with:
For people will be lovers of self [narcissistic, self-focused], lovers of money [impelled by greed], boastful, arrogant, revilers, disobedient to parents, ungrateful, unholy and profane,
2 Timothy 3:2 (Amplified Bible)
As I think about how I only belong to the third generation from my grandparents (which isn’t that long) and that my children will be living in 2100, the unsettling feeling burning up inside me only strengthens. And instead of just thinking about how I could live the best life and that’s it, I should direct all my efforts toward creating a life that could support my children and their children so that they don’t have to start from scratch in this troubled life we live.
How deceitful it is to think that 30 is still young to do something that could change a part of my world (look at the market selling toys to adults to heal their inner child).
Surely, there’s more to life than satiating one’s desires, right?
Perhaps the real question is, “Would we rather keep thinking in the short term or start reconsidering our actions today that would inadvertently affect even the seventh generation?
jessa 