1/16/2018 0 Comments warfare and what i can do Hi! Welcome to my very first personal blog post! are you as excited as I am? Because I'm really excited! I don't really know how to do this blog thing, so I guess I'm going to treat this as a sort of diary. So welcome to my "diary" of a sorts! As of right now, this is my third attempt at writing this post. Wow this is hard. I'm having MAJOR writers block.
I like history, so I guess I will write about what I'm learning in social studies. Here goes: In social studies today we continued to talk about the American Civil War. It was really horrible. I'm not going to get into the slavery subject, because I think we can all agree that slavery is wrong and cruel and disgusting. There aren't strong enough words to describe slavery, so I'm not even going to try. I would like to focus instead on the war part of the Civil War, and just war in general. War is something that really bothers me. And bothers isn't necessarily the right word, but I really think war is horrible. There are so many other ways to go about solving a conflict than ending human lives. Let's talk about this for a moment: human lives. Do we really understand the value of even one life? Video games where we kill, and movies and TV where we watch others being killed seems to make human life go down in value. Oh, that one extra in the back got shot with a gun. Good thing it wasn't the main character! or Woah! I just blasted that storm trooper's head off! Gross!!!!!!!! Do you see how small these things make one life look? Or even when learning about history and how 620,000 Confederate soldiers died, do we really understand the value of each individual life, or is it just seen as that one number? The larger the number the worse it is. No. Every single person killed counts. They all had mothers, and fathers, and brothers, and sisters, and aunts, and uncles, and grandparents, and wives, and husbands, and sons, and daughters. Each of these lives mattered to people. Every single one. And this is just an example. Think about all of the countless people who have died during wars. Try to think of them as not a group, but as individuals. Now that we are beginning to have some sort of weak grasp as to what a human life really means, let's get back to the topic of war. War is the most unnecessary thing that I can think of. Look at Gandhi for example. He freed a whole country without even throwing back one punch. So, clearly, it is possible. Now if we could just get everyone to see this. But we are in the here and now. We are the next generation. Do we really want to see our children grow up in the world the way it is today? We are the change. We can make the change. Nobody else holds the power that we have right now, we can make the world anything we want it to be, but first, we must clean up. We have to fix the mistakes our parents, and grandparents, and great grandparents made. So no, we don't have a blank canvas to work with. We have a dirty, messy, bloodstained world, and all we can do is attempt to shape it into something better. And no, it won't be perfect. We are human after all, and we will be selfish, ignorant, self-centered, and power hungry. I just choose to believe that if we stay true to the right morals, and if we teach others these morals, we just might be able to fix our warped earth, piece by piece, life by life. Wow I have gotten really off topic. This wasn't a post about the Civil War at all! I guess I've just had this idea building up in me for so long that I just had to get it out in someway, even though I know that most likely no one will be reading anything I post. So, if you have actually read this rant of a post, I apologize for my scattered, seemingly unrelated thoughts. I will close with some key points for tonight, to help you, reader, to perhaps understand my thought process and to help me understand my thought process as well!
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