Dystoian Connections

I have learned a lot about reading this past week about how broken our world is, how hard it is to find a solution when a solution may work for an instance but not forever. I believe there is no system that will work forever and there is no savior that will save this world. But I do believe people need to learn to be their best, to push themselves their hardest and to find something that makes them better.

I read Ender's Game and I am going to need to read all the rest, they sucked me in and left me asking more questions than answering.
Could you imagine a life so structured that the only escape is leaving the planet. At 6 years old is anyone wise enough to give up their life for the greater good of the world?
Did anyone realize the number of propoganda in the book, that forced people to make ill-informed decisions? Yet a set of preteens were able to bring it all down.

This book challenged me because I did not connect with the characters, they were too far removed from me and I couldn't find one I could throw myself into, and yet I studied them, as if I were them, what choices they would make and if I could do the same. I would fail, but if I was them and if I could pass I would feel how they felt and I would feel like a tool, another propoganda lie for the government.

I am so sick of the government. I am so sick of the control they have over everyone.


Next: I read The Divergent series and it made me think and question.
There are 5 factions:
The Dauntless: The Brave
The Abnegation: The Selfless
The Amity: The Peaceful
The Erudite: The Intelligent
The Candor: The Honest

And in the beginning I asked which one I would join and it seems like the only answer would be the Erudite but a part of me would fit in all of them. I try to be strong and strength to me is being brave, I try to be selfless by putting others ahead of myself, I try to keep peace and crave knowledge and I try to hold myself to honesty.

But there is a lot in this world that I question and a lot I want to fix. Our world is as broken as theirs even if it isn't as obvious. Our world is full of needless propoganda and that people buy into as if they had no other choice.

I want a world that cares for one another, that may not be perfect but gives you the ability to fight for what you believe in. I want a world that gives you an option to be a hero. That forces you to learn about yourself.

And if I can't live in that world, one day, I am going to have to create it and write a book with as much emotion, with as much pull and with as much strength as my being possesses. Because the world we are in, is not the one that I was meant for.