It's hard to believe that 2020 is almost half way over! As we enter June, our country is in shambles, people are starting to recover from the virus & businesses are trying to reopen their doors and return to just a shred of normalcy. I sit here this morning June 2nd, 2020 on my couch looking out the window and I try to think of something positive in a dark time such as these.
I sit here and admit that I'm afraid for the future not just for myself, but the future that my son & future daughter will have to grow up in. It's 2020 and the world is crumbling & it's people are acting like savages. Let me clarify before people jump down my throat...I am all in favor of PEACEFUL, yes PEACEFUL protesting, but what these people are doing now is down right breaking the law. Innocent bystanders are looking on at their stores getting destroyed whether by smashed windows, theft of product or worse- being set on fire!
In what world is this ok? In what world should this be allowed? NONE! It is no longer about honoring a man who was tragically taken by the arrogance of others, it's become petty and down right ridiculous. I can't imagine waking up one morning and going off to work hoping & praying my store wasn't vandalized or broken into or how about- not even there anymore! What is going on right now is people breaking the law & it needs to be stopped immediately. I like most people, don't seem to have an answer on how to do that, but I'll tell you one thing, people shouldn't have to act like this in the year 2020!
I watched the news probably way too much yesterday and when listening to our President, it just makes me sit back mouth to the floor thinking, this is the face of our country? I don't identify on either side of the political spectrum as I've stated before in a previous blog, but wow just wow. The rumors flying around that he ordered the stoppage of a peaceful non violent protest so he could walk across to the street to a Church for a photo op...the rest of the world must sit back and think, wow we got it pretty good.
This is a time our country needs our leaders to step up and have one voice, a voice for all of it's citizens and instead it sounds like it's a voice only focused on one person- himself. Now does either candidate come this November election jump off the ballot to me- no, but this country is just so stuck in it's ways I'm fearful that the 2020 results may just mirror what it looked like just a short but yet so long 4 years ago.
Where I live, we've been told to stay indoors two consecutive nights. Think about that sentence for a minute, truly think about that sentence. I took a long pause just now and it makes me chuckle just a wee bit as it's so flat out silly to type out. I moved both cars into the garage, double and triple checked all the doors we're locked and again it's 2020! I always think back to a quote I honestly can't remember where I heard or saw it at. "The United States is the youngest nation in the world and also the dumbest."
From where I'm sitting this morning it certainly looks that way. There are good, innocent & hard working people in this world who are trying to jump start their lives again now that the Pandemic, knock on wood, seems to be slowing at least in Illinois but now this growing concern of looting and people acting like down right idiots is another wave of uncertainty.
I pray that the future generation in this case, my son and future daughter can in 2040 not have to face this same sort of fear & hatred but even that thought seems like a distant unobtainable dream.
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