You never know who you will end up talking politics with. The brilliance of this country was built on immigration and the melting pot idealism, as some like to call a "tossed salad." I sat between equals I didn't linguistically comprehend, but related to on one common ground with one common understanding;
Things are fu^%ed up here, No?
Now don't get your panties in a bunch when I say certain things that will infect your mind with thought. Please allow yourself to start the questioning process as I started years back, however at first you will stand alone which is the hardest part of all. Know that knowledge is power and that a single voice truly is the start.
First I'm not going to get all political on your ass and start spitting out shit you probably wont give 2 camel toes about (yes I said 2 camel toes) because it threatens your calm life existence. I sat with 4 people including myself and had a conversation without fear, anger, and animosity. We talked everything politics from food culture in America to Congress. From different back rounds we saw each other as people creating peace, not as indivduals disturbing it.
When one breaks it down it really becomes black and white. The Food Industry, The War that we have been in now for 10 years and also Pharmaceuticals among other issues. Theres a question of right and wrong without gray as they make it seem. When research is done things seem very easy and it starts with you and more imprtantly it is given to our future children to deal with. If you dont become passionate about somethoing NOW it will be put into others hands that only need support.
I can't talk about these specific issues as I feel I will be the whistle-blower, the downer, the instigator. I had a peace conference with individuals that actually all see eye to eye. How important is that more then ever, because its needed as most news is hidden from you. Why is that? At least we know what Jen wore to the Oscars, because that matters.
Oh man..(insert breather) will your heart start to bounce, anxiety will flood and heaven forbid you sweat. Thank god, then you are still ALIVE. Allow yourself to start to question, never think you know everything and don't hand it over for someone else to deal with because these are YOUR current issues that in fact affect you.
"Disturbing the peace is something of a hard thing, No? In America is different, its hard you just live while others fight for the rights of policies and things, I am just for peace."
-Anonymous French man (Greko:-)
Do you not feel it? Or have you become so overwhelmed by your current situation that another issue is too much to handle? Starting is the hardest part, please understand that. Its not easy starting the conversation and keeping up with it even harder.
Pick one thing, for me its food. I love me some food as the day is long. It feeds us, nourishes us and is us as a culture. Can you not see that tomatoes only look real and taste real when its warm out and an apple is now as big as a grapefruit so then they now can charge you more by pound. Your smarter then that to be fooled. When you mess with the beauty of nature it will bite back and that is truth. Calm your mind enough to know the true answer instead of grab grab grab.
In a village in Manhattan we talked, we drank, we debated and the common truth was that something is off. The French man with his long black lashes sat calm and observed, the Jewish Manhattan native passionately explained the real events of 9-11 and the Irish woman debated back fiercely and then there was me. It lite a fire in me (yet again) because if I don't start the conversation, will you?
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