Hello,

 I'm a 15-year-old living in Canada. My name is Tara Everett. I was raised in a good family with good morals. It honestly saddens me to see such horrible things happening in our world. Babies are being eaten in Japan, Abortion and large-scale lies by the governments of the world. Even as a 15 year old, things aren't looking that great from my point of view. I mean as humans aren't we supposed to be over this kind of stupid behaviors. People say stop acting like a child, but children are innocent and have no sense of good and bad until they grow up. Even then parents aren't around when the child is growing up. This can lead to the child not having a sense of morals or beliefs and later in life getting into trouble due to this. To think that this kind of insight can come from a 15 year old!

 Many things sadden me in the world today. I'm disappointed about how we treat each other personally, as a nation and as a planet. There is very little respect left for Earth, because it seems like we have no respect for ourselves. The world is no longer the safe place it once was. People are hurting themselves and everyone else due to bad choices on their part. People are in desperate need of a wake-up alarm clock.... without a snooze button.

 This may seem off-topic but you’ll see how it fits in. I want to become a marine biologist. Not only do I love the water, but I like looking at fish.

 Now that I think about it I like looking at people in the same way. To observe what they do in certain environments. No I don't stalk people, simply watch them.

 Another thing is that the world to me is like a huge coral reef. Full of colors, patterns and an extremely large amount of life. But there is a large difference between a reef and the world above. A reef has a solid chain...a food chain. The big fish eat the smaller fish and so on. In our world there are many smaller chains.

For example;

 A nation is a chain unto it's self. The way it runs the affairs and handles the needs of the people.

 Families are a type of chain. The parents are at the top to guide the children below them.

 There is always a chain at school. No matter what children say. There is the higher popular and jock groups. Then there are the nerds and such. Sometimes these roles are reversed but there's always a chain.

 In the animal kingdom there is only two kinds of leadership. Democracy and in a sense Monarchy. Think of trillions of fish. Now because there are so many they can't have one fish in control. So they move as a whole. Searching for food and a place to lay their eggs. To live in general terms. That is true democracy because they don't have the ability to vote. They have to work out a kind of system that allows every fish to live in a healthy lifestyle.

When it comes to "monarchy" in the animal world I'll use the example of a pride of lions. Lions do have a leader. It's usually the largest male in the pride. Again, the difference between humans and animals is huge. In the animal realm they fight for the right to be leader. You aren't born into such a role. You show that you are worthy of it first and hope that you can continue to live such a way. I’m not saying that humans should live in such a way. To fight to gain power. But it's time that we stopped using money and power as a tool, and shows ourselves worthy of the positions in life we acquire.

Tara Magne Everett

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