Dear America

I am grateful to know you. I'm grateful to be part of your privileged class. I understand this privilege came at great cost.  But I am grateful for my innocent childhood that protected me and instilled in me the  idea that I could be anything I wanted to be. I could go to school. I could work. I could travel. I could leave. I could speak out. I enjoyed good healthcare.  I enjoyed nice neighbors. I enjoyed vacations and extra things. I had a great home where my parents could teach me what they believed. I was free to live my religion. I was free to live within the laws that protected me. 

Unfortunately, I'm not so sure about that anymore. I am still privileged. I am still grateful to live in America. There definitely is no other place like it. And I definitely still think we have the most comfortable way of living, relatively speaking, and now I believe that will ruin us. Perhaps our country is fighting for new rights, rights that I think might backfire under socialism. Some people don't feel completely free, but I'm not sure what completely free should look like. Hopefully it's not a guilt of conscience, but perhaps fear of anothers' judgment and that judgment is limiting. Some individuals feel trapped, and most likely they are due to the struggles of their parents or the rash decisions in their youth, and no I don't think that is fair, but unfortunately, the government has made itself the insufficient cure. Others just need to be heard. I think Americans are forgetting what it means to be independent though. However, for me, independence was aways obtainable (this idea that I could come and go without excuses weighing me down). I don't know what it's like to be so distracted in my temporal needs that I could not even conceptualize what a better life was. So really, my thoughts cannot supersede your thoughts, only throw more words at an already dense fallible outlet. 

We cannot accept people without also participating in what they choose to do.  By not participating, we are stating that we disrespect them. It seems blatantly disagreeable, yet apparently that's the new order, which doesn't lend much to independence. Policy is disagreeable (and always will be to someone), but it's a social distraction. In reality, the economy is bubbling again and worldwide we are seeing crashes, and I think America is in for a rude awakening. We think the issue is large, but I think sooner than later we will see that our perspective is limited to the Facebook newsfeed. What really matters is our moral standing and our temporal well-being. If your home // your heart // your stewardship, is not in order mentally or physically, then what is the point in all the bickering?  In reality, we cannot be free to make choices and be free to choose the consequences too. The day you give up your independence, is the day America no longer exists.  

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By identifying what privilege is, we are facilitating that bias for generations to come. However, we can all be grateful for our experiences in life and fight to open doors for those whose lives we influence. e.v.e.r.y soul is worth it no matter what kind of battles they're fighting.