The United States of America is a
country for people who refuse to be ruled by others. We rule
ourselves.
If the ever-testing forces of
fascism, despotism, capitalism, religion-ism, or any other
"ism" seem to influence the direction of our country
for a period, it is only because we have inadvertently allowed
them to do so, being preoccupied in our pursuit of happiness or
daily survival. However, it is we the people who own this
country, and it is we the people who can exercise control of our
country at any time. All that we require to do so is will.
Everything else is a tool of will, including communication to
each other of the facts, communication of our opinions about
those facts, agreement on any mutual intentions, and organized
action to correct the wrongs of those facts and bring our country
back in line with the will of the people.
We are many. It's tough even to
agree with your closest neighbor, let alone millions of
neighbors, making Democracy a messy and cumbersome process. So
what? We all still hold one common belief, one common value. That
is self-determination, and Democracy is still the best invention
to date that supports the self-determination of the
people.
"the scariest thing about having someone
so
far away is they can just leave
and thats it.
you will never see or hear from them
again,
because you aren’t able to just go to them and
patch things up."
I was quickly learning that something far
worse than the pain of loss or longing was the state of feeling
utterly passionless and numb. That vast empty void in your life
when nothing quite mattered enough to lead you to feel much of
anything one way or
another.
your comfort zone is a prison cell — one that
constrains your full potential and confines you from the
boundless opportunity the world outside it has to offer and
the only person with the power to free you from this
penitentiary of senseless insecurity is you. And that is the
most wonderful part — in your hands and heart you hold
the key to unlocking all of your life’s potential and
all of the possibilities therein, you decide the length of
your sentence, and the minute you make the decision to be
free, you will find venturing out of your comfort zone only
gets easier, because it will become clearer and clearer with
every risk you take that all of your reservations and fears
are completely unfounded.
I
can’t wait for the day that life makes sense – some
days I understand why certain things happened and others
I’m not so sure, but all I know is that somehow we’ll
connect the dots and someday we’ll complete the puzzle,
until then, we have to learn how to live our lives without trying
to understand it and we have to learn how to be comfortable with
the irony and uncertainty of life; otherwise we’ll lose our
common sense trying to make sense of the life we’re
living.