I had the most striking feeling tonight at a PTA meeting. I was watching 1st graders sing and I really enjoyed them. They are so much fun to watch with all their innocent actions and feelings, scared, happy, ambitious, and relieved. There was one little girl that really enjoyed being in front of about 300 people singing her heart out while standing right next to her was a little boy that stared at the floor and was mumbling.
When they were done, the world flooded back into my few minutes of escape and the sinking feeling hit me about the current situation the US finds itself in. Have we given all these little 5-7 year olds our problems for the rest of their lives? Today they worry about singing in front of their parents and tomorrow they will worry about grownup things and possibly the taxes needed to pay back the huge money outlay from the past couple of months and the ones still coming. If what we have been told is right, will they grow up to live fulfilled and happy lives because the right decision was made and the economy made a great and quick recovery? I hope the right decisions have been made and we have given them hope and good lives.
