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Rage Against Something
i feel so different,so different than how i was and how i wanted
to be,5 years can change your life forever. i wanted so much
when i was young,i needed so much,ambitious they say, but i
think i'll never dream like how i dreamed before coming to the
states,i chose to be here,there are a lot of major differences
but i weighed every ounce of thought of coming back to my
home country,and i decided,i thought,no,theres no coming
back.
i feel desensitized,the humming birds,the smell of grass,all of
the beautiful,colorful things,they are all gone,living in the desert
is so much different from a tropical country,here you cant
appreciate color for the main reason that you dont have the
time for it,there are a lot of pros and cons to everything,but the
real reason is i got tired of the system,i got tired of corruption
and sick of inequality,i am looking for comfort,for security, my
country has never been equal to its citizens.i loved it so much
but i equally hate it,i have so much anger in my heart for
people. people of power especially,i pity those who are
hungry,for food,for education and for love.
if only the country was built like it should be,catholicism is the
predominant religion,this is another thing that bothers me,if the
human greed never took over,and if we took the good in us
and have it rule the system for at least a hundred years before
becoming of this corrupted tradition,it would have changed
everything,i wouldnt have written this,i wouldnt have grown up
relating government officials to greedy/bad people.
money is all they think about these days,the thing that they will
never carry beyond this life,a soul is so cheap,it can be bought
for a price,pity that the cheap ones are the ones that are
pushed to be cheaper by the ones who sell their souls for
more. no one wants to take responsibility,everyone points their
dirty fingers at each other,the point is,like what grandma used
to tell me,"point your index finger at someone and you will
realize that the other three are pointing towards you." i have
been practicing how to take responsibility,for me and for
others,im not saying that the country im living in is the
perfect/ideal country,this also has its demons,in the
government,healthcare and its businesses,everything is just
business,the land of the opportunist,where the one who blinks
will be the one who dies.but at least the government doesnt
allow the citizens to die of hunger.
where do i stand?how do i demand?when everyone around me
is tainted,with greed,lust for money,how are we,children of
God,reduced to this. i know that we are more than this but
realistically for the time being,it is money that makes the world
go around or at least thats how it makes my world move and
take shape,i am disgusted...it is the truth and i cant run away
from it,a nightmare that i cant wake up from,you will live your
life working,hoping for a better life until you die or some kind of
disease slows you down and takes over,this is a negative
collection of thoughts,but i see this as the truth about
things,things that are very real and that how people fabricated
things and how they made me believe this as the world im
living in,it makes me sick to realize that it is money that will feed
me,dress me and give me the chance to be loved,how can it
be that important when it was considered the root of all evil,id
rather not be evil.
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All you need to remeber is this: you don't have to be what you despise. People fall into these ways of thinking/acting because they are weak. If you want to be better, then do it. Think positive, act positive, and treat everyone equal (even when they don't deserve it).
You can't change other people's ways. However, if you set an example and it changes just ONE person's outlook on life, you've helped.