After watching Neda, the young aspiring college student, die while protesting the election results in Iran, I couldn’t help but reflect upon our own country and how good we got it.
Sure, we got crime and debt, hunger and poverty and health problems–but unlike those protesting in Iran, WE created our own demise. We don’t watch out of the poor, so the poor form gangs and commit crimes in order to get by and to compete in a society based on “who has the most wins.” We rack up our credit card bills and live beyond our means, but when it comes time to pay, we cry about it and say the CC companies are being unfair by making us pay it back.
We have those who are starving and live in poverty, but we have billionaires and more than half of people living in this country are obese. But still we complain about everything we have, don’t have or got stuck with and blame it on everyone else since clearly, we can’t be held responsible for the misery we live in.
And there are people living in a country where there voices are not heard and innocent lives are being taken during peaceful protests. We have the right to question and even mock our government. What do they have? A backwards government that claims it is democratic but is in essence a dictatorship.
A revolution is happening there. A passion for justice, a movement to be heard instead of just being told what to do.
We should start taking cues from these people and stop pointing the finger at everyone else. We are spoiled in this country and it is about time we started being responsible for our own actions.
