Dear Ramsey:

One  thing is very clear: you are a very angry young man. Your anger is like intense fire and  it keeps burning. What is the use of that fire,  I ask  myself.

You wrote: “I know society  is not going to change so I don’t really see a  point in trying ‘to be the  change I want  to  see in the world’. Maybe if more people felt  like me I’d be  able to start some  kind of movement, but there aren’t enough people who so, so again, what’s the point?”-

Politics then is not a use for your anger. No  existing political movement is burning  with that fire  that consumes you,  so there  is no  party for you to join. You are burning alone.

Let’s look at  your anger: “NONE OF us told our parents  to conceive us so why are we expected  to be grateful..?”. You are angry because someone expects you to be grateful for a life  you didn’t ask  for. You are angry at “people in positions  of authority that they think they earned” but didn’t. You are  angry at  anyone who would “bend us  to his  every whim”, at being “someone’s pawn”, at people who “control EVERYTHING we do from eating, sleeping..”, for not having “free will”,  for not having “control over one’s own life”, for not having or expecting “my time to  be under MY control and nobody else’s”, for  not being able or expecting to be able to “craft my own life, and  live it  by my own terms”, for having to pay  for things that should be free, for paying or expected to be  paying bills and loans and the IRS, for having people “from the outside world there to  bother me”, angry at “EFFING BOSES”, at the “predatory elite”, and  you are  angry at  people who brushed you  “off as depressed”, for “never taken seriously”.

I am willing to take you seriously. Can you quiet down that fire, that rage,  just enough so that I can see you better? The fire, the smoke is clouding my vision of you.

anita