Being an American provides an opportunity to have a golden life. But as soon as you are born, you are limited by millions of factors out of your control.
To me, being an American is being provided with a chance to have it all and quickly realizing the only way to follow your dreams is controlled by those more fortunate than you.
The country where freedom is everything only tries to control what you do.
To be an American in August 2022, is to feel a sense of loss, a sense of extreme vulnerability. My daughters and granddaughters may lose their reproductive rights to a group of conservatives who do not honor individual freedoms. Our world is under extreme stress from climate change & certainly some voices change in our USA. I always told my three children to “leave the world a better place,” and “always help the other fellow.” I'm not sure we are living that right now. Hoping for better.
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