Life's Tough

Life is tough. We all have our own difficulties and we all face the struggles of our own power and love day after day. I know, even in my own twenty-one years of life, have faced many tough times along with good times. One of the major influences that all people can agree to disagree upon is the rules and the democracy by which we are all overruled upon—the one set of rules that we as citizens of the U.S. must abide by. The government influences us all, and we all are ruled by the government—whether we agree with it or not. Lappé conveys, “Citizens are made to fear that going for what they desire and know is right, like ending poverty and rescuing the environment, would unleash the big, bad state” (80). We all empower ourselves with our desires and the things we like and want to accomplish.
Personally, I have dealt with many struggles in my life, and have been caught between making decisions best for me, that have also been complicated by the rules that override me. For example, for the past three years, I have been a year long Student-Intern Technical at an Aerospace company in Southern California. I carry very top United States clearances and have to keep very secure secrets for the safety of the company, as well as the country. My job is within engineering--engineering a plane that will drop bombs, that we also make, over another country in war. Don’t get me wrong, I love my job and am very blessed for the opportunity I carry. It is even something I plan to do after graduation. Yet, I am sometimes caught in the middle between my corporation’s opinions, and my own personal opinions. I believe, and will admit, that I don’t believe we should be in war, and we should change that (but it’s not like I can say this in front of my boss!). Although I have my own desires and things I want to accomplish in my own life, along with those things I want to do to influence the world, I am a little held back by this position that I carry within the company, because I will forever be followed by this job.
Job or not, I will, along with many others are going to be held back by “the man” i.e. an important figure that holds all of the rules. It is a struggle that we all must accept, along with life not being fair. We need to abide by these rules, or else we will all perish and the state, country, and even our future will fall apart.