What Exactly Am I Leaving My Children?
What Exactly Am I Leaving My Children?
What am I leaving Keilah, Kaleeyon and Kezidek—and the four children I already plan to welcome, Kultan, Keslev, Kayonai and Kaitou? A job search, exhaustion and instructions for surviving the same failed system? Hell no.
I am not speaking about some abstract future generation.
I am speaking about my children.
These are not nameless people who may appear one day.
I already know who I am building for.
I am told to work hard for my children.
Fine.
Let us examine what Keilah, Kaleeyon and Kezidek actually receive from that arrangement.
I wake up.
I leave home.
I travel into a clogged city.
I spend the strongest hours of my day working inside somebody else’s system.
I return tired.
I have little time to think.
Little time to build.
Little time to teach Keilah.
Little time to listen closely to Kaleeyon.
Little time to prepare strong ground beneath Kezidek’s feet.
Little time to build for Kultan, Keslev, Kayonai and Kaitou before they even arrive.
The salary comes.
Food takes some.
Rent takes some.
Transport takes some.
Bills take the rest.
The month ends.
Then I do it again.
Does Kezidek inherit my job?
When I retire, does the company say:
No.
Does Keilah inherit the office?
No.
Does Kaleeyon inherit the machinery?
No.
Do Kultan, Keslev, Kayonai and Kaitou inherit the customer base, the building or the profits?
No.
The position returns to the company.
The office remains theirs.
The machinery remains theirs.
The building remains theirs.
The customer base remains theirs.
The knowledge systems remain theirs.
The profit remains theirs.
What do my children receive?
Follow in my futile footsteps, children.
Am I supposed to tell Keilah:
Study hard so you can become useful to an employer.
Am I supposed to tell Kaleeyon:
Move into a crowded city, work under pressure and ask permission to rest.
Am I supposed to tell Kezidek:
Become a walking bank transfer. Spend your strongest years away from your future wife and children so the bills can be paid.
Am I supposed to prepare Kultan, Keslev, Kayonai and Kaitou for the same trap before they are even born?
Is this the Trott Bailey family legacy?
One generation handing the next generation instructions for remaining employable?
Hell no.
I work harder. My children begin with less.
The old world calls this responsibility.
But look at the future it is preparing for Keilah, Kaleeyon, Kezidek, Kultan, Keslev, Kayonai and Kaitou.
A civilization should allow Big King KB and me to place our children on higher ground.
Instead, the old system expects parents to run themselves into the earth merely to stop their children from falling immediately.
Then, when the parents collapse, the system turns toward the children and says:
Kaleeyon, your turn.
Kezidek, your turn.
Kultan, Keslev, Kayonai and Kaitou—your turn.
A rented room, a stressful job and permission to take a holiday?
Is Keilah to spend more time with strangers than with her own family?
Is Kaleeyon to live among millions of people and still feel alone?
Is Kezidek to grow into a world where fatherhood is reduced to earning money?
Are Kultan, Keslev, Kayonai and Kaitou to enter a world where sex is commercialized, trivialized and separated from lifelong commitment?
A world where sexually transmitted disease, betrayal, pornography, loneliness and moral confusion are treated as ordinary background conditions?
A world where young people are encouraged to experiment with their bodies before they have built the judgment, commitment and family structure required to protect a future child?
A world where marriage is delayed because housing is expensive?
Children are delayed because life is unstable?
Family is delayed because careers come first?
Then people wake up older, exhausted and alone, wondering why nobody is beside them?
I refuse to pass Keilah, Kaleeyon and Kezidek a job search.
I refuse to welcome Kultan, Keslev, Kayonai and Kaitou into a world where their first great task is purchasing permission to live.
Big King KB and I intend to pass on something our children can stand on.
This is what I want to tell all seven of my children.
Let my children begin where Big King KB and I finished.
Keilah should not spend her whole life trying to reach the point her parents finally reached when they became old.
Kaleeyon should not have to rebuild from bare ground what her family already learned how to establish.
Kezidek should not begin manhood with nothing but instructions for becoming employable.
Kultan, Keslev, Kayonai and Kaitou should not arrive only to discover that their parents spent decades building permanent systems for other people.
If we establish orchards, our children should begin with mature trees.
If we improve the soil, they should begin with living soil.
If we build workshops, they should begin with tools.
If Big King KB develops machinery, they should begin with production capability.
If World Ruler Sher records the civilizational reasoning, they should begin with understanding.
If we build family compounds, they should not begin their marriages in rented panic.
They begin on ground already prepared.
Then they add.
Improve.
Discover.
Expand.
Correct what we got wrong.
Leave even more for their children.
The old system turns parents’ years into rubbish.
It turns years into salary.
Salary into bills.
Bills into receipts.
Receipts into rubbish.
Then Keilah, Kaleeyon and Kezidek inherit the same need to sell their time.
Then Kultan, Keslev, Kayonai and Kaitou are expected to follow behind them.
No.
My seven children will not inherit my exhaustion.
I will not hand Keilah a résumé and call it a legacy.
I will not teach Kaleeyon how to endure the same trap and call it preparation
I will not tell Kezidek that manhood means becoming exhausted while owning nothing that feeds his family.
I will not plan Kultan, Keslev, Kayonai and Kaitou only to deliver them into a system that consumes their lives.
I will not spend my life building somebody else’s permanent system while leaving my own children nothing permanent.
Keilah will inherit land that produces.
Kaleeyon will inherit trees that bear fruit.
Kezidek will inherit tools that build and machines that reduce labour.
Kultan, Keslev, Kayonai and Kaitou will enter a family civilization that was already expecting them.
All seven will inherit knowledge that remains.
A family that knows them.
A moral foundation that protects them.
A civilization with a place already prepared for their lives.
