Somedays I wake up feeling completely empty and lost. What is my purpose, why am I still here? Is this all life has to offer? Cleaning a house every day, doing the laundry of 5 people, doing dishes, cooking, remember appointments, and paying bills is what life seems to be about these days. Through my job hunting over the past few months it seems that work is hard to find unless you are willing to put your family second to the company’s needs. This is something I refuse to do, my family is first, their needs are more important, but it seems that this is how our country has groomed us. To give everything to make money so that we can pay half of it away in taxes. It seems that our government is not overly concerned whether families of this country have a roof over their heads, clothes on their backs, or food to eat. As long as the people work hard to pay taxes, which do not seem to even go into truly helping the people. Today there are more homeless and hungry families in our country that ever before.
Companies seem to continue to outsource their work, taking jobs and money from the people, yet they will still take our tax dollars as a bail out for their mistakes. Not ever having any concern about the fact that our money is being put into other countries’ economies, creating our economic status to worsen. Why are we so lost? How did we allow this to happen? Aren’t we supposed to be powerful? Well, instead we are controlled by our puppet masters (the government), living day to day until we reach our dream, that they do not want us to ever reach. When did we forget that the government is supposed to be “For the people, by the people”? We somehow allowed it to become “For the rich, by the people”. This completely and utterly sickens me.
My feelings recently have nothing to do with the simple daily things I can change in my life, but instead the major things that I cannot change alone. Every day I’m sickened when I think about how our family of 5 struggles. We may never be able to own a home, truly get a head, or see the end of our student loans. Loans, by the way, that are owned by the Federal Government that puts no cap on how much these schools charge. The same government that encourages us to get a degree to get a head, but never warns you about the massive debt you will be stuck with, or about how you are charged interest from day one of school. All the while, the interest we pay goes right back to the government.
Am I the only one getting tired of this? Are we the only family struggling to live the American Dream? Are we the only ones with massive student loan debt? NO! I know we are not, so why aren’t more people speaking up? Why aren’t more people angry enough to rise up and push for the change we need? Why do we continue to allow those that OUR tax dollars pay to cheat us, steal from us, and work us to death? Why do we continue to be their slaves?
All I want in life is to be able to own an affordable home, live comfortably without massive debt, and see other families have the same. I am tired of all the negative things our society focuses on, of hearing about all the murders, fighting, hateful words to one another, and the anti-social behavior we have allowed to consume our society. Neighbors no longer know one another, people are killing innocent children, torturing innocent animals, swindling the elderly, and shooting one another for reasons not fathomable. Our society needs an overhaul. No one knows how to cope properly with live any longer. Anger runs rampant and we find humor and joy in hurting others. These are the things that I wish no longer existed in the world.
The day that individuals drop their hatred, anger, and personal issues is the day that we can begin to heal our society. As we prove that we are one, that WE care about one another is the day that we band together. This will be the day that we are ready stand up for ourselves and take back what is ours. We deserve an overhaul of our government, to rid ourselves of the selfish, crooked, angry, and hateful ones. We deserve an overhaul of our government, to rid ourselves of the selfish, crooked, angry, and hateful ones. To discontinue the governments say in our social issues. Just as a child with their parents, we the people have become life our government, greedy, selfish, angry, hateful, and crooked. It is time we show how strong we are. If we don’t like the way it is, then we must first change ourselves, help others and teach future generations to be the change we want. After all, they are the future of our country. We are raising the future congress, presidential candidates, judges, lawyers, CEO’s, and everything in between. So let’s stop the horrid path we are on, and begin our movement to the change we need.