tylerknott: Happy Birthday United States. Do better. Be better. Remember the beautiful ideas that be
tylerknott: Happy Birthday United States. Do better. Be better. Remember the beautiful ideas that began you. Be more patient. Be more open minded. Be more compassionate, and understanding, and build more bridges while burning down more walls. See yourself, not as you pretend to be, not as you think you seem, but as you Are. See your flaws and stop calling them beauty marks, call them scars. See them, learn from them, and promise to never make those same mistakes again. Stop believing you’re the best nation on earth, the only one with freedom. See yourself as one of many, one piece of a much bigger whole. Purge yourself of hatred, of prejudice, of your blatant bigotry you excuse away in the name of false and unnecessary security. Open your arms to those in need, to those who need home, who need help, who need the opportunities we once needed. Shake the great tree and let loose the rotten fruits that sit on the highest branches, the giant orange that casts such shadow and steals such light from the limbs below. Start again. Use this Birthday as a springboard and leap, forward in fundamental ways, into a future that doesn’t make us ashamed, but makes us proud. We are here, we still wish to be United, but only when kindness prevails. Do better. Happy Birthday United States. -- source link