is it only a memory?
is it only a memory? is it only something we think about briefly, when we see a flag at half-mast? when you see the yellow ribbons on trees, cars and houses? for all the pain and grief this nation suffered for the days and months and years following the original tragedy, what did it mean then, and what does it mean now?
i wonder, how much has really changed in this nation, and how much has remained stagnant, refusing to adapt to a new way of thought. honestly, i think about my opinions of the united states five years ago, and now, and i must say that my hopes and dreams in the future of the nation have diminished significantly. i don't believe we can be a truly progressive body of people until we learn to accept other cultures, try to understand them, and try to work with, not against them.
it saddens me to hear about and watch people in the middle east who have grown up learning to hate other people. not dislike, but truly loathe and if the situation arises, murder. i can't claim that religion(s) has the wrong idea, or that it's unethical to practice, but at the same time i wonder how they all find it to be okay. maybe i'm just a hippie on the edge, but i could never hate a person enough to kill. and while i don't necessarily have a better answer than 'fight fire with fire', i don't think it's necessarily the best answer.
as a nation, we need to re-evaluate where our government is taking us. i can whine about how I didn't put bush in power, about how I didn't vote for the republicans that are in office, but it doesn't really solve anything. i hope that i don't have to account for the government when i'm in europe, because i don't think i can. i don't pay attention as much as i should because i'm outraged and disgusted by the many twisted words that so many people in high positions of power spew out to the media on a daily basis...but i have to wait a little while longer. just a little while, until the chief steps down in 2008.
for the time being, i'm going to hope that our next "chief" has a better idea of how to execute foreign policy and diplomacy rather than simply executing other innocent people, or sending so many brave young men and women to their deaths.
don't get me wrong, however, i do not believe that the sacrifices of time, money, resources and lives have been given in vain. i do not believe that not supporting the president does not mean not supporting troops. i support the troops. they give their all every day. i wouldn't do that, but i have to respect it. i respect their choices to give it their all, and trust in the powers that be.
i just hope it's all for the greater good. i hope that every day that passes brings at least a little more peace to the people who lost so much in new york, in washington, in the other acts of violence on that day 5 years ago. i hope it brings the best out in people who try to help those in need.
i hope for so much.
i wonder, how much has really changed in this nation, and how much has remained stagnant, refusing to adapt to a new way of thought. honestly, i think about my opinions of the united states five years ago, and now, and i must say that my hopes and dreams in the future of the nation have diminished significantly. i don't believe we can be a truly progressive body of people until we learn to accept other cultures, try to understand them, and try to work with, not against them.
it saddens me to hear about and watch people in the middle east who have grown up learning to hate other people. not dislike, but truly loathe and if the situation arises, murder. i can't claim that religion(s) has the wrong idea, or that it's unethical to practice, but at the same time i wonder how they all find it to be okay. maybe i'm just a hippie on the edge, but i could never hate a person enough to kill. and while i don't necessarily have a better answer than 'fight fire with fire', i don't think it's necessarily the best answer.
as a nation, we need to re-evaluate where our government is taking us. i can whine about how I didn't put bush in power, about how I didn't vote for the republicans that are in office, but it doesn't really solve anything. i hope that i don't have to account for the government when i'm in europe, because i don't think i can. i don't pay attention as much as i should because i'm outraged and disgusted by the many twisted words that so many people in high positions of power spew out to the media on a daily basis...but i have to wait a little while longer. just a little while, until the chief steps down in 2008.
for the time being, i'm going to hope that our next "chief" has a better idea of how to execute foreign policy and diplomacy rather than simply executing other innocent people, or sending so many brave young men and women to their deaths.
don't get me wrong, however, i do not believe that the sacrifices of time, money, resources and lives have been given in vain. i do not believe that not supporting the president does not mean not supporting troops. i support the troops. they give their all every day. i wouldn't do that, but i have to respect it. i respect their choices to give it their all, and trust in the powers that be.
i just hope it's all for the greater good. i hope that every day that passes brings at least a little more peace to the people who lost so much in new york, in washington, in the other acts of violence on that day 5 years ago. i hope it brings the best out in people who try to help those in need.
i hope for so much.