Because all over the world people are killing in my name, dying in my name, suffering in my name.
They wear the uniforms, and the flags to prove,
and I just want to cry in shame, shout in shame:
No more killing!
We ALL just want to live.
This is why I'm not proud to live where I do. Lucky, yes. Extremely lucky to have the privilege. To be able to feel joyous, secure, and content, because all of my basic needs are met. I am able to draw, paint, sing, dance, walk in the forest, the simple things which make life so grand, that too many people don't have the opportunity to enjoy because they are too occupied living in fear and insecurities.
I'll never feel proud as long as someone is killing, and making people suffer - in the name of America, the place I live.
Going to public high school they teach you to be a patriot. To be proud. "We are the strongest, the best". I say because our military is the best and strongest, that makes it the worst! The most brutal and evil, and I will never be proud of that.
This is why I have no affiliation with nationality. This is why I see past the false divisions and boundaries. I will not play along with societies conditionings! I want to scream at the top of my lungs! But instead I vent in my journal, and my blog. I will then close my journal, or close my computer and continue my day in comfort, not having to think about all of the terrible injustices and destruction going on in the world. In places far away, that I am more connected to than I will ever realize. Or even places that are near.
"We have to fight over there, so we don't have to fight over here" - they say. Bullshit! Unless no one is over here, there is no need to be any where else, because... (this is the most top secret information the government doesn't want you to know!) PEACE IS POSSIBLE! Peace is what exists when there isn't war. And war doesn't need to happen!
Seriously, we are floating in space people! Do you have any idea what you're apart of???
War and hatred are a complete waste of energy, and it doesn't need to happen anymore starting NOW.
Things can change overnight, we simply need to stop doing what is wrong, and start doing what actually matters.
Peace.
