"See the mirror pool?"
"Don't promise that. I know the world."
The neverending conflict in the Middle East is such a hurt. I have an uncle who lives in Tel Aviv, and it's amazing to me that he stays. Well, it is and it isn't. It's the place he has grown to know and love as his home; it's where his family is, where he made his life.
I have the birthright. I can go to Israel for nothing. I know why they do this: it's important that we know the home of our people, the history, the land we fight over and fight for. I do want to go to Israel, if anything for the fact that I want to see it, juse to see it. But it's always a question of when. When will it be safe for an American? For anyone? We talk about terrorist alerts in America, but it's nothing like Israel. I can walk into Publix or Blockbuster or a movie theater without the question of "Is this a target today? Tomorrow?"
We've come so far as a species, and yet we still have so much to learn. "We will have perfected cruelty."
I find myself baffled by the things that we argue over in our country; some things seem so ridiculous to me. I don't understand why some people refuse to accept the fact that their belief systems are their own, and not necessarily for others. I don't understand how some people can believe it is the government's right to dictate whom can love and marry whom. I don't understand how some people can stand at the sidelines and ignore the atrocities occuring all over the world.
It hurts. It hurts to think of the ignorance that inhabits our planet. I'm trying to make a difference, I want to make a difference, I need to make a difference.
I want to be able to look back on these years and be amazed that we ever had such trouble in the Middle East, or that our country had such a number of poverty-stricken children. I want to look back and say, "My, what a strange youth I had. The world was in trouble, wasn't it?" I want to look back knowing that we won't revert back.
"We live as if the world is as it should be, to show it what it can be."
The neverending conflict in the Middle East is such a hurt. I have an uncle who lives in Tel Aviv, and it's amazing to me that he stays. Well, it is and it isn't. It's the place he has grown to know and love as his home; it's where his family is, where he made his life.
I have the birthright. I can go to Israel for nothing. I know why they do this: it's important that we know the home of our people, the history, the land we fight over and fight for. I do want to go to Israel, if anything for the fact that I want to see it, juse to see it. But it's always a question of when. When will it be safe for an American? For anyone? We talk about terrorist alerts in America, but it's nothing like Israel. I can walk into Publix or Blockbuster or a movie theater without the question of "Is this a target today? Tomorrow?"
We've come so far as a species, and yet we still have so much to learn. "We will have perfected cruelty."
I find myself baffled by the things that we argue over in our country; some things seem so ridiculous to me. I don't understand why some people refuse to accept the fact that their belief systems are their own, and not necessarily for others. I don't understand how some people can believe it is the government's right to dictate whom can love and marry whom. I don't understand how some people can stand at the sidelines and ignore the atrocities occuring all over the world.
It hurts. It hurts to think of the ignorance that inhabits our planet. I'm trying to make a difference, I want to make a difference, I need to make a difference.
I want to be able to look back on these years and be amazed that we ever had such trouble in the Middle East, or that our country had such a number of poverty-stricken children. I want to look back and say, "My, what a strange youth I had. The world was in trouble, wasn't it?" I want to look back knowing that we won't revert back.
"We live as if the world is as it should be, to show it what it can be."