Runner up submission: What Unites Us?
What unites us? Is it our shared love for something? Our shared hatred for something? Is it money? Is it bandwagon culture or cancel culture? It could be one of a million things. The more important question is, do you ever stop to think why these things unite us?
If you’re looking for answers, I’m sorry to say I don’t have any. What I do have however, is a request. To you, the reader. To take some time out of your busy day doing whatever the hell it is you do, to think about the people closest to you. Family, friends, coworkers, whoever it may be.
Think about what brought the two of you together and why. Or, I guess I can just explain it to you. I can explain how unity is powerful thing. How it can either construct tall buildings, or take powerful people down from off their pedestals. How unity is how the foundations of Empires were built, both ancient and modern.
The ability to gather more strength than 1 man at a time can be either inspiring or dangerous, depending on who is at the helm. Recent examples being MAGA hatters using the common goal of overturning the results of a democratic election to enact a coup and storm the capitol building, versus the Black Lives Matter movement using a shared demand for equal treatment from law enforcement authorities to bring people together out onto the streets all over the globe in support.
People can be very convincing when they want to be, especially when they have an agenda or something to gain. However, it is important to remember that our individual journeys in life will not change the fact are all equals under the sky we were born under, and will be equals again at life’s finish line. Nobody is really over another person, and that titles were created by modern society to develop some sense of organization, and to imbue certain groups of people with a false sense of power over others.
Remember this: No matter how bleak the future may seem. You are not alone.
Together, united, no matter if we are two or two hundred, we can accomplish wonders
“I don’t care how many demons he’s fought in how many Hells. He’s never fought us. Not us united.”