People!!!!!

Take 5 minutes of your day to perform a simple search, Trump Facebook Russia. Ask yourself this.

Why would ANYONE in Russia create fake accounts to support Trump as president???

Then, ask yourself why would Trump even need help from Russia for anything?

What was Trump BEFORE he became president? He's who he has ALWAYS been. A billionaire corporate CEO.

Does he really care about us? He is and always be a corporation!!!! He makes money, he loves money and he cannot live without it!!!

He has been in the perfect position to set himself, his family and his business partners up for the rest of their lives. Where will he be when his term is done as president?

Sitting fucking pretty in his luxurious Trump tower while the rest of us are left to deal with the aftermath. At first he might take extravagant vacations, laugh with his billionaire buddies while playing golf in Florida while most of the country are barely picking up the pieces.

Our children will literally inherit this earth unless its destroyed by ALL humans who live here. I want my daughter to have the opportunity to learn the lessons she's here to learn.

I will not be silent anymore. I have a voice and it will be heard, even if it falls on deaf ears.

I choose to stop burying my head in the sand, like I've done almost my whole life. To me, what I've implied makes perfect sense. I do this for myself first! So that someday my daughter can say that her mother had a voice and taught her that she had one too.

Ponder that. Listen to your heart, then decide for yourself. I did.

OR.........................

I can get my ass off the couch, turn off the TV, keep going to work, pay my Bill's, continue to educate myself, educate my daughter, use my current and future acquired knowledge to contribute something good, use my voice to spread the word.

What word?

Mine. Why? Haven't I already established that my word doesn't matter? That I alone can't do anything. I'm not important enough to make a difference. I really did believe that. I'm noone.

Is that true? Do you believe that? Should I believe that because I don't have enough likes? Or because noone reads it at all? Do you believe it doesn't matter because noone else can hear you? I did. So I stopped.

It would be incredibly easy to just fade into the background. Easily forgotten by most. I'm just one person.

I started actually reading a book last week. I haven't read a book, especially anything nonfiction, in a very long time. 6 hours, ONLY 6 hours of reading helped me realize something I have known all my life but was conditioned out of me at an early age.

I matter. So do you. So does the homeless, possibly drug addicted, guy who stands on the corner begging for money. We don't have to make huge dramatic changes. Just changing one thing is good enough for now. Then when you can, take another.

This is my first step.

The beginning

An mindful shift starts with us.

The human mind is complex but infinitely brilliant. Scientists haven't even cracked its true potential. They limit themselves only to science. Everyone limits themselves only to what they know. The everyone I'm talking about are the ones who flood our TVs with commercials, the next show to binge watch, the list goes on and on. Yes, they do their study that proves that not only will we binge watch and absolutely love it but we will also demand more.

Don't get me wrong, I do it too. It's easier to watch TV and live vicariously through superheroes, genius detectives, doctors who really care about their patients and lawyers who fight for their clients for free.

Think about this.

While I'm binge watching a truly enthralling show about a brilliant hacker in a black hoodie fighting for the little guy like me, erasing my debt, making this world a better place, what's really going on is year by year, month by month, day by day, hour by hour we are allowing the destruction of this planet. Blind to the events unfolding around us caused by racism, greed, vanity, and many others adjectives and adverbs that describe our behaviors.

Some of us will wake up too late. When something has happened that has directly affected us in some way. In our city, on our block, in our school.

Why is it that we only act when we are directly affected by something? I know why I do.

Because I've been conditioned throughout my entire life that I'm not important enough to make a difference,  I don't possess the kind of intelligence to make an impact, nothing that I can do will bring about change, I have no money to contribute to anything so I might as well keep my ass planted on the couch in front of the TV, go to work, pay my Bill's, be a productive member of society, raise my daughter to become just like me.

OR....................what?

Were you expecting something from me?

I am expecting something from myself. Don't worry, it's coming. Stay tuned....