Josh Rittenberg wrote an essay for NPR’s This I Believe, and it was titled “Tomorrow Will be a Better Day”. In this essay he starts out by talking about at time when his dad was concerned with the future of our (16 year old’s) generation. He lists off examples of how we will go into a world wide depression, start a nuclear war, or a pandemic that kills millions of people. He then refers back to when his great grandparents immigrated to America and how they must have felt the same way about there and children and how his grandparents must have felt the same way about there children. And they were right. Over the generations, we have gone through some serious issues like two world wars, nuclear attacks, killer flu, and segregation. But at the same time there has been a lot of incredible advancements like the end of two world wars, the polio vaccine, and the passage of the civil rights laws. That is why he believes tomorrow will be a Better Day.
I like this, i think that he makes a solid point. Of course it isn’t going to be easy, life just isn’t like that. There are going to be some mess ups and fall backs to what we do in the future but i also believe we are going to make some incredible achievements too. I believe that over all, we will be proud of our generation and our future just like every other generation was. And to be able to keep that in the back of our minds would be a great thing. It would give everyone a slight feeling of optimism and motivation to make a difference in the world.
