Looking Beyond The Story Being Told

How would you like it if strangers went to your home and started cutting down your land and tear it apart? How would that make you feel? How do you think the animals and humans who live in the forest feel? You think its okay for you to go and destroy someone else’s home but it's not okay for them to do the same to you right? I thought when we got put here on earth that every living creature should be treated equal. No human is better than the other? Today I saw a movie that made me look beyond the story being told. The movie "Avatar" reflects on our everyday lives in many different ways. In this movie I saw what I see when I walk out my door, on the news, in this world. People not caring about what the world is coming to. We are killing our planet little by little every day, and no one seems to care. Why is that?

The movie shows how humans go to another place just to take what don't belong to them. The same way Christopher Columbus came to America and took what belonged to the Native Americans. This land did not belong to him or us but he didn't care if he was hurting or killing people to get what he wanted. He did what he had to do to get what he wanted, but was it the right thing for him to do? That’s something only you can answer yourself. To some it may have been the right thing to do, but for me that was the wrong thing to do. How can you be so cruel to people and hurt them the way he did? In the movie they did the exact same thing. They wanted to get close to the Avatars so that once they trusted the humans they would take their land and kill anything that gets in their way. They stared killing the land, animals, even people. They cut down the trees and things that meant the most to the Avatar's. We do the same thing to our forest and land. We think its okay for us to do that.

What's going to happen in 20 years when there’s nothing left for our kids to see? Are we just going to sit back and let human’s destroy what Mother Nature created? Are we going to regret in 20 years the fact that we just sat back and let the world fall into pieces? Or are we going to stand up for what we believe in and do something about it? I know I have a voice and I am willing to use it, am tired of sitting back and doing nothing am ready to stand for what I believe is the right thing to do. I sure know I don’t want my kids to end up having to see some of the beautiful animals in books and old movies. I want them to be able to see it in person. I want them to have the experience that we have as kids now, to be able to witness all the beautiful things that we are sadly killing. There is not going to be anything here for all of us if we keep killing our environment and everything that lives on it. Natures is such a beautiful thing and pretty soon were not going to have anything. Everything will end up going extinct if we keep up the cruel things were doing to Mother Nature. Were killing all the animals in the ocean with the big oil spill. Don’t you see what we are doing? Can you just put down what you’re doing for once and look at the bigger picture? How hard can it be to care for something that does matter to people? It may not matter to you or some people but stop thinking about yourself and start thinking about other people for a change. Maybe if you do that then there is hope for us to come out from this big disaster that we created.

I don’t know about you but am using my voice. It may not be big but it sure is strong enough to do what’s right for us. Am going to use my voice to stand up for the incent animals that don’t have a voice. Maybe you will be willing to listen to me or maybe you won’t but that’s on you not me. As long as I can go to bed at night knowing I did everything I could to try to make a change and do what I think is right, then I will be able to sleep good with no worry about it. How can you sleep through the night knowing you don’t care for anything but yourself? Don’t you feel any care or are you just that heartless to not even care?