And yet the people actually building that future aren't making headlines.
They're at home. Feeding a baby at 3am. Reading the same book for the eleventh time. Investing everything they have — their time, their money, their sleep — into another human being, every single day.
In a time when optimism feels radical, choosing to have a child is the most concrete bet on the future that exists. Not passive hope. A daily, exhausting, quietly heroic act of building what comes next.