• Dear World,

    I am but a naive college student, but I have seen enough to know what is right and what is wrong. Most of the actions committed in the world today are wrong; there is too much hate and not enough communication. Some people try to speak their minds, but once they say one thing that hurts the ears of one or more listeners, they are shot down into silence. I try getting my voice across on the internet, but every time I try, my voice is lost among a sea of objection. This is not only in my case: lots of people experience that and in turn feel useless. They can only sit back and watch as the world they live in is destroyed by their fellow men and women. I write this as one more chance to spread my voice as far as I possibly can.
    Look to the person who is next to you or near you, look past their skin color, look past their orientation, look past their religion. Tell me what you see? Every day I look through a person's differences into their core and I see someone who is like me, a human. We are all humans. Fighting each other and hating each other should not be what we do as humans. You see your fellow countrymen; you see how they live and what they do, and some you are friends with, some you hold resentment towards. Americans fight each other, and they fight others who they think oppose their freedom. Europeans stopped caring about war, but still holds suspicion towards others not native to their countries and even their neighboring countries.
    Growing up, all I've ever known about was war. I never knew the full effect of it until George W. Bush declared war on Iraq. People died: innocents, suspects, and even the real 'evil' behind the initial 'attack' on the US. Every day that had passed in Iraq, people died, my cousin is over there along with others who I had graduated with and went to school with. Bombs went off, there were mass shootings, and there were even abductions there. There was even a pack of cards made in an attempt to capture the terrorists before they struck again (that only helped a little though). Even as the Iraq war is subsiding there are still suspicions of immigrants in America from Iraq, and there are even Americans still being killed over in Iraq. I know in some situations that war is the only way, but it should only be a last resort, not the first thing that we turn to.
    Communication is the key to a stable community. It ensures that everyone is on the same level of knowledge as the person across from them. Every leader of every country hides things from the people that live there as commoners. This can lead to suspicion and even the unraveling of a country's stability. America is going downhill with the lies that the government feeds us, and the decoys they send out to distract the masses from the real issues at hand. I don't know much about what other countries go through in this matter, but I have heard some things about banning technology and other things that cut people off from world matters. To stop war and suspicion, communication between countries and their people would help solve some problems. Every person in the world has a voice to share, let them speak their mind and they might have something worthwhile to listen to and to follow.
    Ignorance is bliss, but ignoring important aspects in living will eventually lead to chaos. Focusing more on a celebrity's relationship rather than on trying to help your fellow human make ends meet due to recession or loss is not a good thing. Who really cares who Jennifer Aniston is dating? The reason why we care so much about them is because they are distractions from the real world. We might think that real world matters should not fall upon the shoulders of the citizens, but rather the leaders of those citizens. Leaders can lead us to our own destruction if we let them; this world is all of ours, and as the only inhabitants of the world that can create or destroy their surroundings, we have a responsibility to this world.
    We need to stop fighting, we need to stop spreading hate, we need to stop focusing on trivial matters and try to help each other out. Every human was born equal to their fellow human; no one is above or below the other. Look to your fellow man and woman, look past the differences and see the similarities between them and you. We are human, and if our race wants to live for another thousand years or so, we should follow not the ways of warring ancestors, but start a new way of peace.

    Sincerely,

    A.B