Today wrecked me. I don’t even know how to write this. How do you write about your own speechless sadness? How do you write about how people you’ve known forever can say things that make you physically sick to your stomach? How do I write this? How do I articulate this hopelessness I feel?
After school today, I didn’t go straight home. I didn’t go and get started on my homework. I didn’t immediately go get food. I didn’t do any of my normal things.
Instead, I sat in my car and cried. I sat there and cried for a good twenty minutes. I cried, and cried, and cried.
I cried because today was the day I really did become disillusioned with our country. I cried because I realized how small I was in the face of the utter hopelessness I felt. I cried because of how much in the world just feels like utter and total crap.
Today, in opposition to the President’s plan for the acceptance of 10,000 refugees into the country, our Texas Governor Abbott released a letter to President Obama saying that Texas would not allow Syrian refugees into our state because of threats from terrorists. He was joined by now 22 other US state governors.
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