The State of Our World

Looking ahead I feel, like so many of us are feeling, the wrath of the economy. We are nervous and excited, we are beginning the next chapter of our lives in a time and an era with issues and challenges that we have never seen before. We are beginning an era of change, change in our personal lives as well as in the life of our planet, of our country and of the entire world. And as we begin a new time in our lives, we must remember that we can still make that difference. We can still love what we do and we can find a way to do it, amongst the strains that have been set upon us, most of which is not any of our own doing. We are placed in a challenge, set in the middle of a minefield and left to our own devices to escape and make something of ourselves.

We are suddenly thrown out in the cold, unaware entirely of what we are up against, still dreaming of a day when that email will come offering us something to take, some place to go, some job to grow into. We sit in our respective lives sending resume after resume and praying that someday, we'll find something that fits us, something that makes us happy, something that gives us our chance to make something of ourselves. All we need is that one person to give us a chance, to take a risk on us and for them to say yes when everyone else is saying no.

And so, looking ahead, I know that I will accomplish all I wish to and I know that I will find someplace that I fit, someplace that I love and a career that makes me happy every day. I know that I will, it's the time now waiting that kills me. It's this unsurity, the waiting for someone to contact me, for someone to tell me I am worthy of taking a risk for. We are joining the adult world in a terrible time, in a time that a faultering economy is weakening every country in the world, and where the job market is tighter than it's been in probably 20 years. So in this time of change and unsurity, let's come together and unite, fight this fight together and accomplish all of our dreams together.