Our Future

I was driving last night around 11pm through some highway construction in which 3 lanes merged into 1. It was some nightly, overnight lane closures that from my experience are not all that uncommon. As sat there in gridlock at 11pm frustrated, I began to think. How many of our roads are under construction right now? It seems like almost everything is now. Our infrastructure is crumbling. Practically all roads are in need of some kind of repair. Even ones that are not really all that old. Our schools are cramming more children into each class as teachers are laid off or forced into early retirement. Bridges are failing. These are not small issues. They are the very basis by which we conduct our lives every day...the roads we travel on, the internet we use to obtain timely information, the people who are grooming our youth for the future. In some ways since my divorce I've been sad I'll likely never have children. It was never a driving force in my life to procreate yet at the same time I admit some sadness about never having someone come from me. But...at the same time I feel like the future is so grim, so void of any hope that bringing children into the world would be almost cruel. You can make the argument that child could become President of the US or cure cancer and that's certainly possible. It's just that when you see everything around you falling down, it doesn't give you much hope.