Jun 02, 2008 21:59
when i was in fifth and sixth grade it was my ultimate goal that i was going to be president of the united states one day. i was sure of it. i knew i had what it takes, to run for president, and win an election, because i knew at 10 years old that i was a leader, and that i had the capacity to change things. i spent a little less than two years being so sure of my one day career in politics. at that young i truly cared about sparing suffering and about changing the lives of this nation, because i was aware that it wasn't okay. then when i hit seventh grade i still wanted to bring change but i found out that it wasn't politicians who implemented change, politicians are the soldiers standing against change, they might as well be standing outside buckingham palace, waiting to take out anyone who dares disrupt the heirarchy.
i became involved in activism, the things that really brought change, and i learned that capitalism enabled humans to do the amazing thing of giving reason to destroy human lives for monetary gain, and that is the game our white house has penned.
i spent two years having to live down my preteen aspirations of being president, taunted for the fact that my beliefs seemed to have transfered from alternate sides of the globe in no time flat, when that's not true at all. i had the exact same aspirations, i just had my eyes opened to the real way i would get those things done. but i was born as a radical, and i was born a leader, and i'll be damned to let that go to waste.
the point of all this is, i got tons of shit at my old school for wanting to be someone who had the tools to help people, and i had to be ashamed of being ambitious because it was depicted as something that was against my current statue of beliefs, when the truth is, that's all bullshit, and you should never think it's okay to make a kid feel bad about themselves and their beliefs just because they wanted to make the world better. if you really think that's the right thing to do, you're the kind of shitty person who just takes up space.
too many people waste their time doing nothing on this planet. get your fucking act together and inspire someone.