American Concern

We as Americans have come to a point in our history where our priorities seem to have become massively skewed. Our concerns and ambitions have been shaped by the fact that while we do have many problems facing us, they are incomparable to what much of the rest of the world faces. We argue and worry about reality TV and rising gas prices while there are fellow human beings else where starving to death and growing up without education.



Don't get me wrong, there are many things we as Americans *do* have to worry about. Health care, education, war, democracy, the environment, etc etc. The problem is we don't let these things infiltrate our daily thinking patterns because either we are too worried with our own personal dilemmas or we don't want these harsh problems to bring us down. Well next time you go to complain about your life or about the world around you, think about how much worse it could be.



We as a nation need to start thinking about what we *do* have and not what we think we should have or how much better we can make certain liberties that we take for granted. We need to worry about real problems instead of ones that we can't affect, or that are just simply ridiculous. We need to be a world leader in innovation, hope, science, faith, technology, environmental problems and many other world wide concerns. We need to be the America that this Nation has always dreamed of being, has at times come close to and one that only time can reveal!