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Crying For The World
Crying for the world
Last night, my daughter came home and started to cry. I mean, she was in the ugly cry, and I thought something really bad happened. Like an accident or that something happened to a friend of hers. Wrong, what happened is what we did to this world. It was our generation and the generations before us that did this. She was crying because of the horrible situation the world is in right now. How everybody is hating each other and that nobody cares about what is going on in the world.
She was crying because no one cares about the farmer or the land they farm on. She's going into that field, and she knows this is going to be a fight. She was crying because of global warming and how it's changing the landscape of the world. More tornadoes, hurricanes, floods, and fires every year, and still, the government doesn't want to acknowledge it.
She was crying because of the treatment of the immigrants that are here and that she sees work every day in 100-degree weather on the farms doing jobs no one else wants for little pay. People who we have conveniently forgotten that we all come from. People who came to this country for a better life, that work hard and do the right thing. So they can have a better life for their family.
She cried because we don't care about anybody anymore. It's a world that's all about me and the likes we get from strangers. A world that makes us feel bad if we dont look like this or have that. We already know the government doesn't care about us. They let drug and food companies put poisons in our bodies and in our lands every single day. We no longer have a choice about our body. We no longer have a say and what happens in the government.
What about all the homeless people we have in the “greatest country in the world” Ha! That's a laugh. We may have been, but not anymore. We have more homeless people now than ever. And so many of those homeless people are homeless families. Yes, you read that right, and it's not because they want to be or they are drug addicts. They are homeless because they can't afford to have a home.This is not the American dream anymore. No, no one can afford the American dream here anymore.
It's sad and says a lot when so many of my friend's kids don't want to have children because they don't want to bring a child into this fucked up world and I really can't blame them.
I cried because we did this. We are leaving this world to these kids. We will be gone, but here is a world filled with hate, with no compassion, that is literally ready to implode because of what we did to it, but here…good luck with that. As a mother, you wish you could fix this, but I can't. I can only speak my voice and stand up to say this is not right and what can we do to change this. I can try until I take my last breath to make this world better for my children.
So today, my friends, the first step is to vote, vote for change, and vote as if your life depends on it because it does. Then we need to pay it forward with one kind act at a time. To show love and compassion for every human being no matter what color, what religion or sexual orientation they are. Every small step is a step forward, and don't ever forget that only we can be the change we want to see.
@TreadmillTreats
© TreadmillTreats
Last night, my daughter came home and started to cry. I mean, she was in the ugly cry, and I thought something really bad happened. Like an accident or that something happened to a friend of hers. Wrong, what happened is what we did to this world. It was our generation and the generations before us that did this. She was crying because of the horrible situation the world is in right now. How everybody is hating each other and that nobody cares about what is going on in the world.
She was crying because no one cares about the farmer or the land they farm on. She's going into that field, and she knows this is going to be a fight. She was crying because of global warming and how it's changing the landscape of the world. More tornadoes, hurricanes, floods, and fires every year, and still, the government doesn't want to acknowledge it.
She was crying because of the treatment of the immigrants that are here and that she sees work every day in 100-degree weather on the farms doing jobs no one else wants for little pay. People who we have conveniently forgotten that we all come from. People who came to this country for a better life, that work hard and do the right thing. So they can have a better life for their family.
She cried because we don't care about anybody anymore. It's a world that's all about me and the likes we get from strangers. A world that makes us feel bad if we dont look like this or have that. We already know the government doesn't care about us. They let drug and food companies put poisons in our bodies and in our lands every single day. We no longer have a choice about our body. We no longer have a say and what happens in the government.
What about all the homeless people we have in the “greatest country in the world” Ha! That's a laugh. We may have been, but not anymore. We have more homeless people now than ever. And so many of those homeless people are homeless families. Yes, you read that right, and it's not because they want to be or they are drug addicts. They are homeless because they can't afford to have a home.This is not the American dream anymore. No, no one can afford the American dream here anymore.
It's sad and says a lot when so many of my friend's kids don't want to have children because they don't want to bring a child into this fucked up world and I really can't blame them.
I cried because we did this. We are leaving this world to these kids. We will be gone, but here is a world filled with hate, with no compassion, that is literally ready to implode because of what we did to it, but here…good luck with that. As a mother, you wish you could fix this, but I can't. I can only speak my voice and stand up to say this is not right and what can we do to change this. I can try until I take my last breath to make this world better for my children.
So today, my friends, the first step is to vote, vote for change, and vote as if your life depends on it because it does. Then we need to pay it forward with one kind act at a time. To show love and compassion for every human being no matter what color, what religion or sexual orientation they are. Every small step is a step forward, and don't ever forget that only we can be the change we want to see.
@TreadmillTreats
© TreadmillTreats
