Future debts paid now

Is this the real life?
Is this just fantasy?
Caught in a landslide
No escape from reality
Open your eyes
Look up to the skies and see

I am procrastinating on the real world today. Sitting in front of me is a mountain of bills and paperwork I must pay and complete for my life and business. Some are personal bills, some are business taxes, some are something in between. Sometimes, it just seems like an endless stream of the same, day in and day out. But, it isn't true though I think or at least, I don't think it has to be.

This is part of the reason I am so interested and personally invested into Steem and Steemit. It is not only that I hope that one day it will offer some financial benefits it is that right now, I can think about things I have never thought about before. That is valuable in a world of consumption and repetition in my opinion and anything that encourages broader thought, should be supported.

Lately, I have been looking at lots of negatives of Steem but to be honest, there is mostly upside considering the options available currently and the potentials for the future. There really aren't many places that will remunerate on self-exploration and that is what this is, exploring the self. It is an art form.

Through interactions across the Steemit platform we are able to investigate many aspects we may not have thought much of before, connect with a hole range of people, try different actions and even personalities, think about taxes and politics, education and anarchy, art, science and how to build a global society filled with diverse personalities. Use it well and we can improve ourselves, poorly and we can miss a large opportunity.

What opportunities have you missed in your life that only in hindsight you realised it actually was an opportunity? Will that be our experience here? Perhaps it will be for many where if this platform does become successful they will regret not investing a little more of themselves into it. If it doesn't though, those that did invest themselves are unlikely to feel completely lost either as they will have a lot of valuable understanding.

I wrote a post about AI before and where it may lead some of us in the future. My biggest concern about it all is for my daughter. She is smart. Really smart. And I am 90% sure that it isn't just 'dad saying that' about the kid he loves. It would crush me to see so much potential without an outlet, without a way to explore her world fully, without a job to turn to. What if this is my chance to create the space she needs? What kind of father would I be if I didn't put what I can into it?

Yes, her life is her own and I place no expectations on who she is or what she will do with it but, the world she will live in is being created as we speak and I am a part of the community creating or, not creating it.

This is the problem, unlike the pile of bills I have to take care of before the debt collectors come calling, the responsibility I procrastinate on and leave will create a future cost to be paid by my daughter and all future generations. Currently, we are racking up debts they are not likely to ever have the ability to pay. There is no reminder coming in the mail.

How hard is it to do a little more, act a little better, help somebody other than oneself?

Caught in a landslide
No escape from reality

The collectors are coming to take their cut as we close our eyes and look toward our toes.

Open your eyes
Look up to the skies and see

I have bills to pay.

Taraz
[ a Steemit original ]