"Hatred, fighting, war, death"

“What has this world come too? Hatred, fighting, war and death. Exactly that. No one believes in peace and love anymore. They say that the war is going to end but here we are still fighting to keep our freedom. Deaths happen everyday. The government can’t even keep the peace between the cities anymore. They are too worried about what happening in a third world country. Maybe they should start paying attention to their own country. There are people living on the streets here in America. No one understands what some of the high schools go through. The government doesn’t give a shit one way or another. People die everyday but the only things you hear on the news now a days are about the war in Iraq, celebrities who have died or got pregnant and the weather. They don’t care about America. With society today if your gay then you get the shit kicked outta you in the big cities. In the suburb, the parents disown you. In the country, people fight with you because of what you are. It’s not right. Some parents are still against having colored people in schools. I got a news flash for those people, they need to get over it. Parents think that they could walk in out shoes, well news flash, I would rather do their jobs than have to go back to school. Let them take our place for a day. Then maybe they would treat us with some respect. Why don’t they try and deal with the heartache and the abuse that the teenagers go through now a days. They don’t even know what pain is. Let them deal with the stress. Let them deal with the changing of the laws. Let them deal with a friend whose parents want nothing to do with them. They don’t know the half of it. Parents wonder why their kids do drugs and drink all the time, deal with the reality of being a teenager now. No one takes them seriously. Maybe the “adults” should start caring about what kids get taught in school now a days. But apparently they don’t care. No one can stand the fact that the schools can’t get help from the government because out country keeps spending money on a third world country. Maybe they should let the people run the country instead of a government. Everyone might be better off.
Thank you for listening.”
The start of a day in the life of Monica Spirit. As soon as she woke up she thought that something was different. She couldn’t place her finger on it until she got to school. She heard the announcement and thought that maybe the school should do a protest against everything that America was doing wrong. Because she was only a teenager she didn’t think that anyone would listen to her. She finally decided to see if the students wanted to start a protest against everything. So she made up a partition that had a list of everything that the government was doing to screw them over in the long run. Monica was determine to get everyone at her school to sign it. She knew that the teenagers were the future of this country. She didn’t know exactly how to make it so that everyone would sign it but after that announcement she figured that the teenagers would sign anything to rebel against the government, but first she had to do some research. She starting asking her friends what they wanted to do when they got older. None of them had an answer because they figured that the government would make that choice for them just like they do now. No one can go to school and not have the government find out. No one could disappear without the government knowing. No one could even say something without the government knowing about it. No one knew what would come of this country if they didn’t have the government to tell them what to do all the time. Everyone figured that this was how life was suppose to be but not everyone thought that. Monica sure didn’t. She didn’t want the government choosing what she did for the rest of her life. They might help in some ways but if they can’t even help their own country then why should the people have to deal with it. Monica was determine to find out what they had in store for the next twelve years of her life. She was only a sophomore in high school and she already knew that the government was screwing people out of money and jobs because they need the money more than the people do. So they think anyways. The government thinks that they are doing a good thing but what if it was one of their family members over in the war? Would they still want the war going on? Probably not. They don’t care about the families that lose people that are very dear to them.
“No that would never happen.” in the words of our government.
They wouldn’t allow that to happen. Send an innocent civilian over to Iraq and let them die for our freedom. God forbid if they send someone from the governments family over to Iraq. Let them go over there and get shot at. Maybe even let one of them die and see how they like it. I don’t think that they would like it very much. They don’t even care about what’s been going on in the schools because their kids all go to a PRIVATE boarding school in another country. They don’t know how many kids get sick a year from eating the school food that they serve. No one knows how long that food has been sitting there.
From Monica’s point of view it’s disgusting. The government should really worry about everything that has been happening in their own country before they even start to worry about anything else. So the twin towers went down big whoop. You don’t hear about it anymore. Some people are surprised when it’s brought up in a conversation. Everyone has forgotten about it basically. Except for the people that had lost someone in the crash. Other than that no one remembers. Our troops are still over there because the government wants to keep them over there. They are sending our younger men to Iraq to die so that the older people and children of this world will have a better life. News flash there won’t be children if the newly married guys keep going over to Iraq and keep dying. There is going to be no future if they don’t come home soon. Monica was getting annoyed with all these thoughts going through her head. She didn’t know exactly what to do but if she could get a group of teenagers together then she figured they could come up with something. The first thing she knew what they had to do was make it so that the troops came home. After school was out she went home and started making an outline for everything that had to be done. She didn’t even realize how fast the day had gone because she was so caught up in all of her thoughts and what needed to get done. By the time she went to bed it was really late.
The next day at school, she gathered all of her friends and told them about what she was planning to do. They went and told all of their friends and by lunch the whole school was buzzing about what was going to happen after school. The teenagers were excited about everything. They couldn’t wait until after school so that they could get a jump start on everything. Monica told everyone to meet in the cafeteria. As soon as the last bell rang everyone headed straight for the cafeteria. The parking lot stayed empty. The teachers didn’t know what to think about that. Every had stayed after school. They had to know what Monica had to say about the government and the war in Iraq.
As soon as she had everyone attention she started off by telling them that she wanted to start a petition to get the government to take the troops out of Iraq. She wanted it to be every where. She wanted as many signatures as they could get. After the teenagers found out what Monica was doing then they set out to help. Some of the kids new other people from out of the district so they called them up and asked them to help out. They all agreed to help out the cause.
The next day at school everyone reported to Monica. Some of the teenagers told her that they had called some of their friends from another school and told them what it was about and they wanted to help out. Monica said okay and then went to go make more petitions. Monica was excited about everything. She figured that when she got older that she would look back to this day and see how it changed her life.
What Monica didn’t know was that it was going to change her life for the worst. Monica wanted to make the world a better place but didn’t know that by bringing the troops home that it was going to affect everything. She’s going to be the one that gets blamed for the military not doing their jobs and then the military is going to fall apart. America won’t have any protection from other countries and they are going to get taken over by another country.
Monica was hoping to get everything done with in the couple of weeks. Her next move was to write a letter to the government and explain to them what was going on and what the people thought of this war. She was going to make it so that the letter was sort of mean but in a nice kind of way. She wanted to make sure they knew that she ment business. She didn’t want them to know that they were getting a letter from a teenager. They would probably look up her name and find out that she was only sixteen, but she didn’t care. She wanted them to know what was going on in their own country.
Monica went home and wrote the letter. It read:
“Dear Mr. President,
My name is Monica Spirit. I just wanted to inform you about what the people have been saying about the war in Iraq. There are a lot of people that are very anti-war. So as a result of this we have made a petition. There are over four hundred signatures. The people want to bring the troops home. Thank you for your time.
Signed,
Monica”
Monica was very proud of this letter. She couldn’t wait until she could get this letter mailed out. She figured that she should have done some research first but she was so excited about writing this letter that she didn’t even think about it until after she wrote the letter. The next day at school she took all of the petitions and stuck them in the envelope and put it in the mail. She didn’t know how long it would take for the letter to get to the president. She hoped that it wouldn’t take very long.
A couple of weeks later Monica was running late for school and didn’t get a chance to catch the news, so she asked a couple of her friends and they told her that all of the troops were coming home. Monica was so excited. She didn’t know how to handle herself. As the day went by she couldn’t believe that she had missed that announcement from the president. She was kind of mad at herself. She would soon get over it though.
A couple of years later Iraq found out that the military in America was no longer an issue. So the people of Iraq decided that they were going to bomb America and take over. They had succeeded so far. Finally everyone started to point fingers at one another for who had made it so that the military quit their jobs. Then they started thinking about what was going on and what had happened. Then everyone started to remember that Monica was a student in high school and made it so that the troops were coming home. She was the cause of everything. Finally they found her working in a McDonalds and told her that she was banned from that town and state.
Monica didn’t know what to do. So she packed all of her stuff and set out on an adventure. No one else wanted her in their town either. So she left for another country. She figured that she could go to England. She knew that no one knew her in England. So she boarded the next plane. It was a long flight. She couldn’t wait to get there. She had an adventure a head of her.
As soon as her plane landed she couldn’t wait until she could find a place to stay. Monica found a cute little hotel to stay in. She just had to pick up the lingo and whatever. So she set out to find a place to hang. Finally she found a place. It was a quaint little restaurant. She found some kids that were her age. She tried to hang out with them and they didn’t want to hang out with her. They knew exactly who she was. So she went to find the backstreets of the neighborhood that she was living in. Maybe someone wouldn’t recognize her and want to hang out. Finally she ran into someone and they started to hang out. Her name was Arianna. Monica said that was a pretty name. Then Monica asked her if she knew who she was. Arianna said yes and she didn’t care who she was. Monica thought that was cool. So they became really good friends and they hung out a lot. They did everything together. Arianna started to dress like Monica. Monica started to get a little annoyed with Arianna.