2020 is the year.
2020. I feel like that's all I have to say now.
"Hey man, how are you?"
"Oh well, you know. 2020. Am I right?"
Then just laugh it off like it's no big deal.
But it is.
This is the year we needed. Not because it's full of light and happiness. No. This year is a bottomless pit that we keep falling into. Month after month there's always some obstacle preventing us from finding peace. Yet, you still sit here and do nothing. I know how you feel: hopeless. Tired. You alone can't do anything for anyone and you're stuck as you see media feeding us lies and you just want to believe in them so badly, that the Government really is trying to help us by giving us money. Only so we don't cause an uproar from quarantine and covid. Big corporations feeding us entertainment so they can live lawless while we think we're the lucky ones.
What about those that are unlucky? The people are forced to defy their morals, stuck, in an industry that allows harrassment behind the scenes and corruption as we sleep.
You think you can't change that? Can't change anything you believe in?
What about women's suffrage? 1852.
Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. 1950's.
Malcolm X, 1965.
Brenda Howard, 1970.
These people represented us valiantly and justly, they had courage and they were hungry for change.
Where's your hunger?
You have to crave for a better world, not just lie in the comforts of your own home. We can unite as one, because past the skin and past the cognitive works that make you, you, all I see is a human. A human who has the same core beliefs as I do: justice, equality, and peace.
What we are living through is anything but.
And it all starts with you. Living and breathing for a better world, because we can do it just like the people before us who left their beautiful legacies for our protection. We need to do right by all the people before us, and for those are crying out for help, by standing up and saying "I want change."
Start a movement.
Be apart of one.
We have a voice and together we can move mountains?
You want to be heard?
Then talk until your throat runs dry.
You want change?
Stand up until your feet bleed.
Stand against those who try to control you, look them in their eyes, and say:
"I want change."
Because it starts with you.