When is the ceremony?

Is there an official key exchange?

Who’s hand will I get to shake as the media furiously snaps photos of the historic event?

So often when it comes to macro global trends, movements, and events like climate change or the current protests over the murder of George Floyd, we think of there being this generational power divide.

Anyone over a certain undefined age control has control over the events and direction, and anyone under that age must wait to inherit “the world that is left for the next generation.”

This thinking disempowers us, however. It makes us feel like we have to wait until some distant future when our voice will matter enough to speak up and act.

But our voices matter now.

There is no inheritance ceremony, no handing over control of the direction of the world.

No matter our age, we’ve already inherited the world and are responsible to use what we have to shape it into the kind of world we want it to be.

There’s no waiting until we have more agency or ability in the future, most of us will never have more than we do right now. But it’s enough.

So let’s get down to the hard but essential work of owning our inheritance, all the guilt, shame, abuse, inaction, hope, love, empathy, and compassion that comes with it, and do our part to make things better for those beyond ourselves.

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