Unity

Last Friday, we were asked to write about what we thought we needed "to spread among our brethren to improve this country." I wrote about unity. Then I found myself typing in some negative things. I decided to delete the whole thing after I read it. I didn't like it. I felt like a complainer. Then, after a few minutes of staring into space, I tried to write again. But then I felt as if it were too personal. I tried changing the idea of unity into something else, but I liked the idea. It was true. Eventually I came up with a good essay, but it wasn't something I was extremely proud of, so I decided to write here.

Okay, so I think that our society lacks unity. Particularly with the government, or hospitals. Right now, the only way I can try to explain this is through this analogy:

Poem+tune:Good song just like

Government+corruption/greed:Evil game of Monopoly

You don't work as a team when you play monopoly. You roll the dice right so that you can buy what you want and end up with the most amount of money to win the game. You end up in jail a few times, but again, if you know how to roll the dice, you get out. Then you reach the point where there isn't much property left to buy, and you and everyone else know that you've bought most amount. Then in the end, you win. That's the thing. You did. Just you. As in the singular form of "you". But the game is over. All you can do is feel proud that you won, celebrate, and tell all your friends that you did. Then your about to go to sleep at night, and realize it was only a game.

Monopoly isn't a bad game. You really learn from it. You are able to improve your strategic mind. But when a real life situation is turned into a game of Monopoly, it doesn't necessarily have an amazing result.

So yeah. There you have it. If everyone started working as a team and not a single player, the possibilities would be endless. Well, at least that's how I see it.

What Is Love Between a Man and a Woman

This poem is by my mother. She doesn't have a blog, so I decided to ask her if I could post it here.

What is love between a man and woman

What is that when time has passed

I know what it is not---

It refuses to be how it was in the beginning

It cannot persist to be new or fresh or innocent

When words are replaced by silence

or when silence hides behind words

When preoccupation with demands of life

stands between Love and love

Who then keeps watch on the love

This I know as true---that a man and woman

chooses to stand beyond the circle of love

Risk the whole world to fall apart

Remove the conditions that comfort

Because together they are greater than they are apart