Collective Destiny

We all are people in the world wondering how we got to what we are now. When you look outside, you see a window to the future from the past. That tree on the side of the road is only there because someone decided to plant it years ago. We are here because our parents decide to make us.

When we are young, we are influenced by our environment and our parents. Our society is also like a collective parent to us all. Some people think of it as fate. Fate is the thought that things are bound to happen no matter what you do and free will is ill-relevant.

Are we influenced to have certain decisions? Do our parents or friends pressure us into making decisions in our lives? In our lives, I find that their are remarkably few times where we can make choices that are not forced. Our time here on earth is dictated by those who have came before us and by those who are more powerful than us. When you do something, it effects everyone below you and behind you. Simple things can ruin lives and the thought of a better future is impossible to realize when you are so disadvantaged.

In our society, we like to believe that all men are equal. But that isn't true. When you are super rich, you have a lot more anatomy. Poor people like to believe that the rich people are different then themselves and in the thought of the knowledge that they gain from being on the streets and the things they learn about street etiquette, they are different. But contrary to social darwinistic belief, rich people and poor people are the same but with different innate responsibilities and differently grown ideas.

People are not always rich because they are hard working and some rich people get life handed to them from the golden chalice of their parents. They are the ones that hold real power and they are the people that should be the most materialistic. The more money they spend and invest, the more jobs are created and the more people can have a good income, but their is a trend that people with money don't spend their cash, but save it. When they cut salaries and wages it's to increase their profit. When they outsource, it is a global economic success but a domestic failure as the group of people who they are offering their product to suddenly becomes smaller because they can not afford it.

As much as some politicians like to believe, supply side economics is not working. I am a conservative and I can tell you that the parties of today help no one because they can not think of anything bigger than what can help them right now. Each debate is two-sided and no candidate shows any real potential as they have to appease the voting population who is apart of their party. Money dictates what you can do and the devil will nip out in hell before a poor man can become president. The people in power control our lives.

The few times that we have actual or atlases some direct control on our fate or destinies is when we are with extreme interactions with other people. When you get married with out any pressure and just for the whim of an ideal thought of "true love," you can achieve a thing that no one else can. People will try to theorize that maybe you married someone like one of your parents, but in the end, you did it because you can. The same thing happens in divorce too.

Don't get stuck up in the thought that you are doomed to the life you are given, but realize that you can attempt to change your temperament and in me saying this, in effect it would be the same as If I was saying that you can not.

Your life is your life and when you are faced with the choices that effect other people, that is your time to show off, make the right decisions and someday you'll be honored and upheld as a model of a human being.

-The Observer