Growing up in today's world

Growing up in today's world 

I am fearful for the world, and I am fearful for the children who are growing up in today's world. There are so many things that should make us all fearful. The rights of women, the ban on books, trying to make our children think slavery was okay, because it taught the slaves a career. We should be afraid that racism is back in full force or that they want the LGBTQ community back in the closet. The world is changing, global warming, which they say doesn't exist, but yet every year, the ice caps are melting, and the natural disasters are getting worse.

We have done this to this planet, and when we are gone, we will leave this mess to our children. I have never heard so many young people say that they don't want to bring children into this world, not that I can blame them. I would have had second thoughts, too, if I grew up in this era.

But being the endless hopeful that I am, I know we still have time to change. It is never too late to change.

Many people say what can I do, I am only one person. It only takes one person to change everything. Rosa Parks was one person. Martin Luther King was one person. We can be that one person. And maybe just maybe if enough "one person" does things, then it becomes a movement.

We are killing our planet, we are killing our world, and we need to take a stand. We must stand up for everyone's rights, not just our own. Good can conquer bad if we all come together.

Every generation has gone through things and said their generation was better than the one before it. But we should want all generations to have a good life.

So today my friends, remember what we do today affects all the generations to come. We need to make a change, and we need to be the change we want to see.

@TreadmillTreats