What Actually Belongs to the Next Generation

"They should not inherit every burden left here" — Do More Than Enough

There's a difference between the challenges that genuinely belong to the next generation to solve and the ones that just get handed over because the current one didn't get around to it. This line draws that line deliberately, refusing to blur the two categories together.

Some Problems Really Are Theirs to Face

This isn't an argument that every hard thing should be resolved before the kids grow up — some genuinely new problems will belong to them, shaped by circumstances that don't exist yet. That's fair, and expected. The line isn't disputing that category at all.

The Category That's Actually in Question

What's in question is the pile of problems that were already visible, already understood, and already within reach to fix — but got deferred anyway, year after year, because dealing with them now felt harder than leaving them for later. That pile is the one this line is actually about.

Why Deferral Feels Easier in the Moment

Every individual year, leaving a known problem for later feels manageable — there's always a reasonable-sounding excuse for this particular year. It's only in aggregate, looked at from a distance, that years of individually reasonable deferrals add up to an unreasonable inheritance.

A Song Built Around Exactly This

There's a song called Do More Than Enough that draws exactly this line — not everything, just what was already ours to fix while we still could. You can hear it here: https://iadult.com.au/listen/do-more-than-enough