Build Tomorrow - Another Day Of Life

When I started this series, it was because of an overwhelming sense of missing what was. A time in my life when things were simpler, when time didn’t seem to move so fast, and technology was something you were amazed by, not something that seemed to rule the world around you. Toys required imagination, and vast worlds and cities were made of blocks and legos, that sprawled for what seemed like endless miles, though it was constrained to the confines of a child’s room, but vast and endless constrained only by the limits of their imagination.

As a child’s imagination grows so did my ideas on this series. I began to think about how different the world has become. How jaded, how cynical, and how much more advanced we have become. Yet with all of the advancement in technology, our advancement in understanding the world in which we live has not kept pace. So what does that really mean? Are we better today, rather than yesterday or was yesterday a better day?

“Time is a companion that goes with us on a journey. It reminds us to cherish
each moment, because it will never come again. What we leave behind is not as important as how we have lived.”
~Star Trek: Generations

I realize that at some point my children will in their adult life look back and feel the same nostalgia, the same sense of missing what was, and wondering what will be. The same as I do right now. I do believe strongly that time has jaded us a bit into thinking that more material things will bring us happiness. It is the way our culture has evolved. We live in an age of high paid CEO’s 20 year old millionaires, and more technological advances in the last 20 years that had occurred for the first 80 years of the last century. We communicate via text messaging, and e-mail. We check on our kids via GPS, and rely less on them telling us their whereabouts, and their stories. We have more information at our fingertips today than ever before. We can peer into the lives of others through their blogs, their web pages, and there “My Space”, giving a transparency to the world we have never before seen. We see our children before birth with technology never dreamed of 50 years ago. We polarize our politics, by either being totally involved, or barely involved.

So what is the point? I believe it’s this. Our culture needs to meet our technology. Our understanding needs to catch up to our knowledge. Our patience needs to temper our thirst for instant answers. And given the right time, and right input we shall rise to meet the challenge, an face a world in balance with technology, and humanity.

My children won’t miss what live was like 20 years ago, because they weren’t alive. But they will miss today, 20 years from now. So our job is to leave them with memories, just as happy as the ones I had. Memories of those fun family days, playing with their parents, enjoying all the world has to offer.

This will be the last part of the “Now and Then Series”, and I hope you have enjoyed it. I hope I brought back good memories and hope for the future. I have a new series in the works that I hope you will stop by and check out. Part one will be up in the next week.

With the close of this series I hope I have given some insight. So text your children that you love them, send them an email, do whatever you need to. When you get home tonight, turn off the TV and listen to them, put the blackberry away. While things may not be perfect today, and we may have lost some things, we have gained just as many, as long as we learn to adapt. And our families will thrive, differently, but just as well. And I hope you think about those changes, “Now and Then”

~Another Day

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