Life is A Game of Charades

We wake up in the morning get ready to face whatever the day brings us. We brace ourselves for challenges we do not foresee it could be school, work, or an event we have been preparing for. But most of us refuse to show how unprepared, scared, or how overywhelmed we are.

How Do We Play The Game Charades?

As an adult I always put on a brave face. A face that shows I got this. When deep inside most of the time I had no clue what was going on from being a single parent, a person who struggled in learning being in college, and just everyday challenges. No one wants to see a person that is breaking inside. No one wants to see a person that does not have strength, and no one wants to see a person who cannot handle things. A person who had their gut punched by something horrible that happened in their personal life cannot show their feelings in a professional world. They will put on a brave face and do what they have to do.

Test taking OMG!!!! is the worse. Taking exams I would rather call out sick than do lol. Math almost brought me to not graduating college. I was lucky enough to go back to Lesley University to help me get through it. My problem is math and most things analyitical due to a brain injury. But there are people who socially have problems. They put on a brave face daily just to survive. We all have to work. If you want anything in life you have to work. Even working sometimes financially you cannot survive.

Current Political Temperature of The World

Currently, in the temperature of the world we put masks on just not to listen, hear, or know what is going on. No one wants to think anything is wrong in their country. No one wants to think the very same people who are keeping us safe are actually hurting us. No one wants to think there is an environmental/climate problem. No one wants to know anything is wrong. For these people, it is easy to live their best lives buying coffee everyday, going out with friends, and going places ignore what is really going on. Here is the motto to most people. Hey it does not a affect me. Why shoud I care? Which they are not wrong. I am glad they can live their best life. What people do not understand there are over 41 million people that do need financial assistance and SNAP benefits. BTW: Millions of the people on SNAP also work. However, because they work on such a low wage job they do not have a choice. I remember being in my forties charging gas working 4 jobs after graduating college due to the economy collapsing. So not everyone is so lucky. I will always be for the underdog.

How We Deal With It

Again it easier to think there are problems in our own country due to illegal immigrants, and people who cheat the system. When in reality it goes much deeper than that. How about paying for things we have no business paying for?

Is There Something We Can Do Regarding Illegal Immigrants

I would like to talk about illegal immigrants. Why can't we put every illegal person (not criminals) that is currently in the US on the road to becoming legal, and collect taxes from them? We love to tax people. Make them legal, and have them work and pay taxes that is a great solution. I am not sure why we so afraid of this. These people could even pay fines. I am sure they do not want to go back to their country for one reason or another. Some of these countries are unsafe.

We are paying more money to illegal immigrants out of the country, while creating fear in states than we are saving money. Guess what ICE is getting paid during the government shutdown. Yet the FAA is not. Crazy to think the people who control the safety of the airplanes are not getting paid, but people who are instilling fear into people are getting paid. IS THERE A MESSAGE IN THIS? You be the judge.

Message From Author

Again, we all play this game in life called charades. We all hide behind something. All of us ignore one thing or another. There are days everyone of us could say we acted like a robot. We just did we had to do to get through the day. We turned our emotions off to surive whatever obstacle we had to handle. Remember to rest and take time for yourselves. Life can be tough sometimes, but you are tougher. Relax and breath

Written by,

Cheryl A. Nocera