What goes up comes down?

Even though everybody has heard the saying “what goes up must come down.” no one is interpreting it very well. We think too much about the glue that we use to make “it” stay up there so we never have to see it again, rather than throwing it high and preparing ourselves for the landing it will unavoidably make. We tend to forget about it once we have smothered it in glue and thrown it to the ceiling. We assume that it won’t ever come back down to land on our heads. This is especially apparent with the U.S debt. Every once in a while it seems a generation is faced with our "little debt problem" and we all handle it the same way: go into more debt and push it onto the backs of our children. I like to think about problems as things that need to be prepared for, not things that need more glue.