I’ve written about this before. More than once. It’s a recurring theme for America and I can’t stop thinking about how disappointed I am in our country because of it.
I simply don’t know how to teach you to care about other people.
Our country is in the middle of a pandemic that we should easily have been able to control and move on from months ago. But because our “President” doesn’t care about anyone but himself, we are experiencing mass illness, death, poverty, and a million other things simply because he doesn’t care.
Wearing a mask in this pandemic has become a political issue because people are too selfish and ignorant to care. Instead of doing the right thing, Americans are protesting and refusing to wear a lifesaving piece of cloth.
We are thankfully in the middle of a revolution but because a whole lot of people have spent hundreds of years not caring. Racism is real. That’s not a debate. Black lives matter. Not a debate. Black people are fighting for their literal lives because other people don’t care.
I am so sick of this country. I’m so sick of it that I’m very seriously researching moving abroad when the pandemic ends. And I fucking love this country. I have always been so proud to say that I am American. America has afforded me so many things that I probably wouldn’t have anywhere else in the world. Yet today, I can’t celebrate America. I whisper when I tell people I’m from here. I don’t feel proud of this nation. I’m embarrassed.
Awesome, I get it, there are a whole lot of good things and good people in America. But I’m so sick of the “well there’s still good people left” argument. It’s tired and it’s barely hanging on by a thread.
The America I’m living in right now is selfish, ignorant, and childish. The America I’m watching everyday is filled with this all consuming idea that we are the single center of the universe.
I think a new President will help. It will not solve all our problems. Our government isn’t working for anyone. It’s not creating an American dream. It’s creating a divide, gate and discarding its own to save a dollar.
I don’t know what it’s going to take for people to care again. I don’t know what the breaking point is and I don’t know if I have the patience to wait for that. I don’t know anything.
I wish there was a lesson here or some profound realization but I don’t have one. I’m just as lost as the rest of you. I know one day things will evolve and grow and change because I see the future leaders stepping up and guiding us. I’m just not sure I’m willing to wait for that time to come.
America I’m not mad, I’m just disappointed. You know what? I am mad. I’m disappointed and I’m mad and I’m sad. Profoundly sad.
Please try to lead with empathy. Please try to understand that we have to care for others or we all fail. Just consider that life isnt about you all the time. It’s entirely possible for all of us to win.