All The Faults In The World
By Elizabeth Sack I am a star that lives above the world. I watch and I wait, and sometimes, someone looks back at me. Even during the day I am watching, and there is nothing I can not see. I have been watching since the earth was formed. I have seen continents come together and break apart. I have seen oceans cover the world. I have seen civilizations rise and fall, and I remember a time before there were humans, before there was heartbreak. But it is the times of heartbreak that are most important in history, for they are also the times when change will come. I have seen cities war against each other, seen calculated murder at the hands of criminals, seen humans shun others simply because they are different. I do not pretend to understand it, though I have seen it all. After all, the stars have many colors, white and green and red and yellow and blue, and thousands in between, and there are not any that are the same. But every star fills your night sky, and without us all the night would be empty. I think it is the same with your world. Every living thing makes the earth colorful, whole, makes life worth living. I just wish that all humans could see it. I have seen colonists come across the sea, trying to administer their rule. I have seen them go to Africa, and just because the people there looked different, they enslaved them. I have seen hunts, humans hunting animals, killing them, for no crime that I can see. I have seen trees cut down so that an already overpopulated species can continue to grow. I have seen humans treat others of their own kind less just because of their religion or the color of their skin. I have seen wars fought because of it, but the problem is still here today. I have seen police brutality, child slaves, mistreated women, hunted animals, hewn trees, world-wide wars, environmental crises. Yet for all of this, all of this hurt and hate and fear, I have seen people who rose up, people who are still rising up, to face it. Greta Thunberg, Martin Luther King Jr., Rosa Parks, Mahatma Gandhi, Malala Yousafzai, Ruby Bridges, and hundreds of thousands more. And though they each fought for different things, what they fought didn’t matter nearly as much as what they changed, what they inspired, what they defied. And one of the best parts was they were all ordinary people. But they were also people who saw a fault in the world and decided to start to fix it. And maybe the faults weren’t fixed, maybe there are still cracks. Maybe there are cracks that no one has seen or tried to fix yet. But it is always darkest before the dawn, and that is when you can see the stars. Elizabeth Sack is in grade seven and goes to Samson G. Smith Middle School. She is in Newspaper Club and plays the flute.
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