The Future

 Don’t feel too sorry for older people, the elderly, if you will.  We are living our future.  We are not anxious about the future or fearful of what might happen.  It is happening now.  So we tend to live in the now, not so anxious about what will happen to the planet, the economy, or income.  We have achieved our sobriety about what we can do and what we cannot do.  We are maintenance people.  And we have wisdom as our gift to others.  We have been “there.”  So we pray for the young people.  They have much to learn, mistakes to make and a fraught future to live.  We pray that they will experience things that are wonderful, but which we will not be around for.  Let them think they grew up in the best of times as we think we did.  I grew up in the Bronx in the 1940s and 50s.  Just lucky I guess.