Power to Seek

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I cannot say I am strong but I am better than I was before. I cannot say I am all-knowledgeable but at least I am wiser than before. Seven years have pass since I departed my homeland. Seven years since I broke with what I thought I knew; blaming the outside world for life's problems placing stereotypes on entire ethnicities out of ignorance and fear. Seven years I have walked a broken foreign road. Say what I must and do as I must but know I have moved on. I have blamed America for my ignorance but now I know-truly know. It was always within my power to seek truth.

My country has betrayed itself and deep down I knew it was going to decay over time. There would be nothing I could do about it but seeing it like this- not even a hue of her true colors-I wish to show her a mirror. Nothing more. I accept that this was all inevitable and we the citizens are to blame. I accept the pain and sorrow I have brought down upon her soul by not doing my part. I have moved on and loved another- Egypt. If only America could open her eyes to see what has truly happen. Now, I feel the warmth of the desert sun upon my icy cold skin and the welcoming embrace of the foreign arms and I open my eyes to how I had been tainted and seduced. We must choose a new path to a new life- I choose to act. To take the Truth which I have found, and shine light upon it. To encourage my fellow citizens to re-acquire the knowledge that was meant to be inherited by them and to reject the pattern of failing nations from the past.