Journey to a New Life

  So I started reading Howard Zinn’s ‘A People’s History of the United States’ and was in tears after a few pages lol. I mean, this is not the heroic / fairy tailed version of history as we get taught in school, where only those things are shared to put the Human Race in a ‘good light’. Sure, we had some wars ‘here and there’ and maybe some genocides in the run but let’s not dwell on those ‘mistakes’ and rather look at all the amazing and wonderful things we have achieved and that got us to where we are today. I mean, have you seen the latest iPhone? Our history was totally worth it….NOT!!! If there was ever a God and a Heaven, I’m pretty sure he closed the Gates a looooooooooooooooooooooooooooooong time ago, because there’s no way anyone of us deserves to go to Heaven after the shit we’ve pulled.

So I was busy reading the book, blown away by the horror of our nature like I was busy watching the most gruesome scary movie ever – and then I realised, oh crap – I got a baby coming into this world and at some stage he/she is going to have to learn about history. How am I supposed to explain this stuff? There’s no excuse, no justification, no ‘explanation’ to how we’ve behaved. For a species granted with the gift of ‘reasoning’, we seem to not have done much with it – except for using it to come up with clever excuses as to why it is okay to abuse and exploit others.

What do we have to show for? Thousands upon thousands of years of abuse – and so far, a future which seems to provide the same story line. We are a sad bunch.

This is not a world fit for children, this is a world of shame! And the worst part is, that for all those years of having screwed things over – we haven’t learnt a thing. We haven’t come up with proper solutions that actually take care of major problems like poverty and starvation. Sure, we have this nice document where on paper we all have these Human Rights – but these are not being protected in any real way. Instead of this being the headline every single day in the news, we rather distract ourselves with gossip and the newest gadget and scandal of the day.

Let’s change our legacy, let us put into place some REAL Solutions we can stop being a complete disappointment for the children to come.

Check out the Equal Money Website, Check out the Declaration of Human Rights as per the Equal Life Foundation. It’s time to write a different story.