A Glimpse Into My Story

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BEWARE

This is no longer a time to decide whether or not your differences with another nation or even a neighbor are worth the trouble of war. We are smarter, we are better, and we are at the crossroads of evolution of a whole new generation of mankind, we are now in the place in the history of intelligent life where we must grow and change with the demands of nature colliding with technology and selfishness, or we will perish. 

What a way to honor all of those who had to survive just the basic hardships of life, battling against not themselves, not their fellow man, but the harsh winters on the prairie, or the rigorous treks across miles of desert, or perhaps the most dangerous journey man could take upon himself in the decision to challenge the unruly seas; and for all of that to be thrown atop one of the several garbage islands floating around our oceans, or across the dead and rotting carcasses of malnourished people and animals who starved because a few took what belonged to all. Here we are, we the legacy of these stories of survival and discovery, and the majesty of our lands are blown apart and their amputated pieces are split and devoured because the action “helped unemployment rates” and “we were entitled to use the resources God left for us to have”.

Everyday we take for granted how far people had to reach to allow us to be alive, how many times people pushed through their deaths and persevered to see things like the coast or a mountain for the first time. We have so much going for us, and yet because of OUR greed it is like mankind is competing in the race of its life, and we have taken the baton from the previous centuries and instead of giving our all, pushing with all of our might to make it to the next person on our team waiting for us to pass everything that is precious to humanity on, we have sat down on the track, and we ignore the wailing, the pleading, the screaming coming from the future, begging us to get up, brush it off, and be better, keep moving forward.

 And I stand in the distance as a child watching as the people who are supposed to know better than me disgrace themselves by acting like this whole event of existence ends with them. By swallowing up the remaining resources, by gorging themselves in luxuries unearned, by gazing at themselves like birds distracted in their own image reflected off of a shiny screen, I am disgusted and distressed. What can I possibly do? I am too far away from those with power or influence, my suggestions are drowned out by the screaming dissension of political party bullshit, and people only see me as some young person that has no business expressing my viewpoint- I haven’t earned that privilege, I am a snowflake, I have no respect, what do I know about anything, I am a woman. I am just supposed to be quiet and wait for my turn at the adult table, wait until they are gone and dead, and then I will be allowed my audience, my chance to use my voice. 

The problem is the thought of watching them kill everything that is precious to me as they drag themselves down in a horrendous finale of “the greatest generation of all time” haunts me every time I look to appreciate something innocent, something beautiful, what is precious in this world. I walk the Earth every moment haunted with these thoughts. We have to come together as an undivided force against the dangers of nature of which we have no control, but we need to make haste in taking responsibility over those things in nature of which we hold complete control- and that is us, that is humanity’s impact and relationship with nature and itself.