Having To Pay Hundreds Of Dollars Just For The Honor Of Being Denied Is One Of America’s Biggest Failures.

Instead of wondering if you’re smart or not, maybe we should just ask ourselves if we have learned something in our life and if we will continue to learn stuff.

Tinker bell is an engineer

Economists are the modern Cassandra

Be the kid you know you are

If a situation or descision involves someone’s livelyhood, you need to take a step back before going forward. You owe it to being a good human to care enough to not run through the traps if the one the traps affects isn’t you.

I’m not sure how you got that I don’t want people to vote from this. I want more people to vote and less people to jump to revolution as the first thought when something goes wrong. I know a lot of people who think a full on Civil War is coming. Do we believe that our system is so broken that it’s time to pick up arms? That’s a pretty extremist point of view from anyone.

Perhaps using revolution instead of revolt or war made it a bit less obvious I was talking about a form of violent uprising against the current government. But it’s cool to know that you think rioting is an appropriate response to any political discussion instead of voting, emailing your political officials, protesting, etc.

Vote please. Voting is one of the best things you can do. Revolutions historically don’t work and I understand there are situations where they are necessary, but I fully believe the USA isn’t at that point yet. Voting is still the answer.

I wonder how the prevalence of revolution stories in our (United States) literature and media (hunger games, divergent, etc.) has introduced the idea that revolution is the first thing to do when a system is broken. How has that idea convinced people that rioting may be the correct thing to do (Capitol riot, George Floyd riots, etc.)?

There was a girl sitting on the bench

Her hair fell into her face

And covered her eyes

everyone who sat next to her asked her why

Why she let her hair mask her beauty

She answered simply

“You would drown in my eyes”

They laughed and asked her to show her face

“no” she replied every time

They taunted her, and grabbed her hair

She had long since stopped trying to stop them

When her eyes were uncovered

They stopped laughing

Her eyes held oceans beyond comprehension

Her left held a furious image

of the waters revolting

Her right held a serene scene

of the waters relaxing

They all ran before they drowned in her eyes

I watched this happen time after time

One day I sat beside her

I did not ask her to move her hair

“Why are you silent”

“I only want company”

I sat next to her everyday

We spoke of many things

But I never asked her to move her hair

And she never asked me to move mine

I sat beside her, but she looked different

Her hair was pulled back

“You won’t drown. I won’t let you”

All I did was move my own hair back

And let my night skies mix with her oceans

Sometimes all you can do is breath

Vulnerability isn’t the same for everyone