Many fo­cused youths set goals for the fu­ture; how­ev­er with the un­pre­dictabil­i­ty of the world in its cur­rent eco­nom­ic, so­cial and en­vi­ron­men­tal self, we can on­ly hope that such un­pre­dictable el­e­ments stay strong and do not be­come un­sta­ble for the sake of our own lives. As a young in­di­vid­ual, I hope for a world that can holis­ti­cal­ly ad­dress its chal­lenges to at­tain that glo­ri­fied aim of a sus­tain­able fu­ture. Guar­an­tees are giv­en to many peo­ple on a dai­ly ba­sis, whether it is through the mar­ket­place or on a po­lit­i­cal plat­form. In what­ev­er con­text a guar­an­tee is giv­en, by hu­man na­ture it is ex­pect­ed to be de­liv­ered. When it comes to the world that I want to live in, I would like hu­man na­ture to be chal­lenged every­day so that we can de­ter­mine our own evo­lu­tion. When guar­an­tees are giv­en, we should try our best to make it a re­al­i­ty as op­posed to point­ing fin­gers with the mea­ger thought that such ac­tions would sub­sidise the ab­sence of a so­lu­tion. It is dif­fi­cult for a fo­cused youth to say he/she would like to bring a child in to­day's world of cul­tur­al dis­re­spect. One's rea­sons may ex­tend in­to one's aca­d­e­m­ic and ca­reer oblig­a­tions, how­ev­er per­son­al­ly, the cur­rent state of the world in all its cul­tur­al el­e­ments is not as co­he­sive as I would like it to be. My chil­dren in par­tic­u­lar, must ex­pe­ri­ence the earth in its most cul­tur­al sense, stem­ming not on­ly from my per­son­al back­ground, but oth­ers as well. It is manda­to­ry that they learn of every­one, so that they can de­mand the re­spect of their own cul­ture, and give just as much re­spect to oth­er cul­tures around them. (It is very dif­fi­cult to be­lieve that my own coun­try, Trinidad and To­ba­go signed the De­c­la­ra­tion on the Rights of In­dige­nous Peo­ple, and in­di­vid­u­als of the Warao and Ka­ri­na go quite un­no­ticed.)

Com­mu­ni­ty liv­ing is im­per­a­tive for a sus­tain­able fu­ture. It de­mands ca­ma­raderie that would ini­ti­ate the pros­per­i­ty of a col­lec­tive world. A com­mu­ni­ty it­self ex­ists with­in the frame­work of its own cul­ture, and thus pro­duces its own morals and val­ues. In my opin­ion, cul­ture ex­ists on a uni­tary scale, and any change of lo­ca­tion gives off dif­fer­en­ti­at­ed, as well as sim­i­lar norms and val­ues. In my vi­sion of a com­mu­nal fu­ture, I en­vi­sion a peo­ple shar­ing their sim­i­lar traits while re­spect­ing their dif­fer­ences. With­out this we would be in­ca­pable of work­ing to­geth­er to achieve a sus­tain­able fu­ture. The time scales for this change would be ex­ten­sive, and it would not hap­pen overnight. So­cial­i­sa­tion takes time, but how will we get there, with­out a hint of when we should start? The Utopi­an im­age is thought to be ide­al. How­ev­er such an im­age is far from be­ing a re­al­i­ty. It is in­deed sought out, and is de­scribed as a ben­e­fi­cial world for all. How­ev­er, to at­tain such a fu­tur­is­tic vi­sion, it must be tak­en in col­lec­tive steps, that are not done hap­haz­ard­ly, but done care­ful­ly with liv­ing crea­tures, in­clud­ing hu­mans in mind. The sus­tain­able fu­ture is in­deed at­tain­able, how­ev­er with­out that holis­tic ap­proach, it is a vi­sion that we may nev­er see.