The Borrowed Future of Children
“We do not inherit the earth from our ancestors, we borrow it from our children.”
- Haida Indian Saying
When we borrow money we pay it back with interest, when we borrow a car we fill it with gas, and when we borrow our friends clothes we clean them before we return them. However when we borrow the future from out children we look to be giving it back to them broken and worn, with no resources to fix it with. Our world is not replaceable and our children’s futures should not be taken for granted. We must live today with the future in mind, so that our children will not inherit our failures.