As the first half of the semester is winding down and the second half will be getting started shortly after this week-long break from school. I sit at home, while most of my friends are somewhere luxurious, wondering why I am so stressed out all the time. Maybe it is because I get involved with too many extra-curricular activities, or maybe because I am very good at procrastinating. I also realize that I complain about a lot of things, even if there is no reason to be complaining. As I am sitting here thinking this I am watching the history channel and it is a program on the evolution of earth and people. There was a short part in there about how parts of the world have gone through different forms of suffering including The Holocaust and Western Civilization. Native Americans (and people involved with the holocaust) went through a lot of pain and suffering when they were forced to leave their original habitat. They had their land, food, houses, religion/beliefs, their everything taken away from them and all that is taught in high school classrooms is how THEY started wars and how THEY are the enemy. Was war between two cultures the Native Indian way of complaining? I would argue no to this question. I feel that Natives were trying to fight for what was originally theirs and what they believe in. Indians had all the reason in the world to complain about their situation, instead they fight for what they believe is right and brush off outsiders. This makes me take a second look on my life and realize how I need to appreciate everything that my parents have done for me, everything I have done, had done, or will do in the future. I am lucky that I didn't have to go through suffering as many people before me have.
