Why do we burn our
home?
Hello, my name is Addison.
I am only eleven years old, but my mind
is well beyond my years. Not because that was how I was raised, but that is how
it has to be.
I have grown up in a pandemic, a war,
and a nightmare.
Although I know a lot already
(considering my average grades) but there is one thing I still don’t know that
has been confusing me for years…
Why
do we burn our home?
We chop down our trees, our air source,
leading to a suffocating death.
We kill all our animals, destroying the
ecosystem throwing everything off balance, leading to a starving death.
We pollute and contaminate our water,
making it so it can’t evaporate, leading a drought of a death.
Why
do we burn our home?
As I am writing this, right now, right
here, there is a war going on. An unnecessary, random war. Russia has invaded
Ukraine. This war is against international law, but nobody wants to send their
troops to step up to Russia, I can understand where they are coming from
though. But anyways.
Why
do we burn our home?
So if you think about it this way, that
a conscious living thing would never seek to destroy its self. So if we ever
had a conscience all, I’m sure we lost it hundreds of years ago. While all our
ethnicities, religions, and appearances may be different. But our hopes,
dreams, and species are the same.
So will be continue this war,
destroying ourselves?
Or will we join to protect our home and
our human race?
is yours.
As my favorite quote says,
“Everything will be okay in the end, if
it’s not okay, it’s not the end.”
By Addison Valentine.