How can we leave our coming generation a world better than the one that was left to us?
Thanks for A2A. Actually, I am little confused on how to answer this question because there is so much a common man can do to make this world a much better, beautiful & most importantly peaceful place. So, I will try to keep my answer in bullets.The best part is that it's quite simple to change the world because instead of changing the world all you have to do is change yourself.So, if you are not financially independent then you can contribute by:Saving electricity & water.Stop littering.Follow traffic guidelines.Use public transport.Plant a tree every week.Never waste food.Educate at least one unfortunate child.Donate clothes and books.Form a small work group in your locality and try to solve small problem on weekends.Most importantly, exercise your right to vote and believe in your country if not the government.If you are financially independent you can contribute via above mentioned means. Additionally you can do following things:Donate certain percentage of your income to the right charity.Adopt a pet (only of you can give proper time)Invest some money.Never help a needy with cash as it's most likely to get invested into wrong thing.With fundamental rights also remember your duties.These are very basic things that we can implement to make our surrounding clean and progressive, it's just the matter of when we decide to change.Ask you have to do is to score a 90 percentile in a hypothetical competition of being a good citizen. If you did that you indeed made a difference no matter how small or big.P.S. Hope this answer makes a difference in just one mind.
Is it more important to leave a better world for our children, or to leave better children for the world?
Let me answer your question in a very unpopular way. It isn’t going to make any difference about future children if they aren’t able to live in the contaminated environment that parts of will soon sink into the ocean.Most of the sea life is dying as climate change is ignored in favor of the present planetary inhabitants comfort and so called better standard of living. The glacial ice pack is melting at an astounding rate and soon many islands will be under water and parts of other continents uninhabitable.We are a greedy lot who talk about our children but really have no concern for future grandchildren, even though the full fury of the effects of climate change have been unleashed on every country in the world. In the past year this country alone has seen three 500 year climate catastrophic climate events.What do political leaders plan to do about climate change? Practically nothing. In the US the news directed at climate change was almost zero. The news moguls don’t want anyone talking about it. The need for nuclear power is back in the news, even while disasters from months ago in Japan are still spewing radioactive waste into the ocean that reached the west coast of America months ago.The wing nuts are out in force with the usual end is near predictions but with no practical solutions because they WANT to see global destruction, and can’t wait for it to happen. We are even electing some of these strange people to public office.As usual when a scientist or writer mentions climate change the messenger is attacked as though by talking about it there is something weird or anti-American about it. The future is indeed grim because we have ignored warnings about climate change, just as we ignored warnings about over population. Now there won’t be room for the wild animals and the space needed for humans to live cooperatively and cleanly.What are we going to leave as our legacy when fresh water is more expensive than the fuel used to power our migration northward, as plants and animals have already started their own journey north?Thanks for the request.
Why would the wealthy see giving their money to charity as a better choice than leaving it to their children? It is a recurring theme to not leave their children an inheritance, forcing them to acquire their own money along the way. I don't buy it.
I’ve worked with hundreds of estates valued anywhere from 500k to 25 million in my career. Why would anyone rather give their money away than leave it to their kids?People fight over money. People and money mix together like oil and water, especially when it comes to money they haven’t earned themselves. I see families that have levied serious accusations over relatively small amounts and the goodwill of brotherhood dissolved over $10,000. If you knew that your children would fight over money, wouldn’t you rather burn it no matter the amount?Some people just don’t want to interfere in their kids lives. For families with estates valued in the tens of millions, do you want lazy and unmotivated kids who don’t accomplish a lot and just wait for you to die, or do you want dynamic and hard working kids who go out and make the best of their lives and are hard working and stand up people?I doubt I’ll ever have an estate worth in the tens of millions but I can see that if I did I would likely have very strict restrictions about how the money would be spent. I would likely want to leave some to my kids, but I would also likely have very strict no-contest provisions in the will. I would also likely give the bulk of the estate to charity rather than to my children. I wouldn’t want them to live in the lap of luxury; I would want them to struggle and find their own way in the world rather than just live off of my own money and laurels.
What would you do? I left my kids........?
living with a man you don't love won't do your kids any good. and eventually it will wear on you also. your kids are going to be just fine. you and your husband will work something out so the kids can see you. meanwhile, you're happy and healthy and your kids are being cared for. ultimately though it's your decision to go or stay. if you're happy in one situation and not in the other then i don't see what you have to decide. ya know? call your kids often and see them as much as possible. everything will work out. it usually does with time. it's only been six months. good luck.
Should I feel sorry for leaving our kids a defective world?
Children are the hope for the future.Without them, there is no future.Successive generations of children have grown up over the last few thousand years, progressively improving on what came before them.The world may seem defective to you, but it has been significantly improved compared to the world that was left to us.We currently live in the most peaceful, productive, well fed, prosperous time in all of human history.It may not be perfect. It may still have massive problems.But they are less massive than they were 50 years ago.The biggest threat we face is corruption an indifference fuelled by complacency.As an example, Australia is about to lose it's car industry, largely due to complacency.This will be a massive hit to our economy due to a host of unintended consequences and a lack of understanding of just how far outside the car industry those consequences will reach.As my son grows, I hope low cost 3d printing will advance to a point where we can re-establish a low cost manufacturing industry and from that a car industry. But I won't hold my breath.If the price of the laser sintering printers and materials ever gets cheap enough, I may just have a go at establishing such a business myself.
Is it right to leave your wife and kids for a higher purpose in life?
Is it right to leave your wife and kids for a higher purpose in life?If one is destined to do so, no power in this universe can change his mind.Adi Guru Shri Shankaracharya left his aged mother in Kerala and, as a peripatetic, walked the length and breadth of our country spreading Vedanta. He has left a rich spiritual cornucopia behind him, for the benefit of humankind.Gouthama Buddha was a crown Prince. In the middle of night, when the whole world was in deep slumber, this gentleman had the awakening and immediately, even without waiting for the Sunrise, left his young and beautiful wife, his young son and also his parents and palace in search of truth.The purpose of the above two giants was far far higher than this mundane life. That is why both are remembered and revered for ever. We, lesser mortals, for whom this day-to-day living is everything and the materialistic possessions are everything, cannot comprehend the stature of such Goliaths.Take the case of Sir M.Visvesvaraya, Engineer, Dewan and the architect of the then Mysore State. He had an incompatible and miserable conjugal life. Reason being, he was totally focussed on improving the life of people of Mysore State. The State saw many developmental activities under his able Dewanship. The then Maharaja of Mysore backed Sir MV in all his ventures. The State had earned the sobriquet Model State in India at that time. His focus was on a higher purpose and hence he placed his personal life on the back burner.Shri Ramakrishna Paramahamsa and his better half, Smt.Sharada Devi, mindful of their purpose on this planet, did not enjoy their married life like commoners and attained an elevated and enviable status in society. Both will be revered till the Sun and the Moon last.It is not the question of right or wrong to leave one’s wife and kids for a higher purpose. If you are the choice of the Creator to do something special on this planet at the cost of your personal life, you have no say in the matter.
Is homeschooling good for kids?
I want to home school my children, but all the home schooled kids I have ever met were either a) completely nerdy , b) out of touch with reality or c) nerdy when in home school then got out in the real world and became very rebellious (sex, drugs, etc) I don't want that to happen with my kids, but I still hate the idea of the normal school system. Have I just had bad encounters with home schooled children, or is this the tendency of most?
What would be the legacy that you would like to leave your children and to the world?
Be courteous.Next, be kind.Last, think for yourself.No-one else cares about you as much as you do.Anyone who accuses you of ‘disrespect’ is used to ‘respect’ that they haven’t earned.You are fallible. Your parents are fallible. Your ancestors were fallible. Everyone is fallible.BE NICE TO OTHER PEOPLE.If you don’t want to be nice to someone, seriously (SERIOUSLY) consider why not. Think about their life, their choices, and whether you’d have been any better off than they are.We’re all different. We all have an agenda. We’re in it for ‘for me, my kids, and next, people who look like me’.Be nice to people that you don’t understand.