Welcome to America, the land of the free. The land of running water. The land of wildflowers. The land of puppies. The land of Walmart. The land of bathtubs. The land of Massage Envy. The land of Instagram. The land in which yellow school busses drive children to get an education every morning. The land where hospitals are open to anyone. The land where you can choose what color you'd like your hair to be. The land where you can choose to vote or not. The land where a female is not only allowed to vote, but to campaign for the highest office.
Welcome to America. Home of billboards. Home of the Dallas Cowboys. Home of the Golden State Warriors. Home to some of the world's most famous institutions, such as Harvard, Stanford, Yale, Princeton and Notre Dame.
Welcome to America, the land of conservatives, democrats, independents, straights, lesbians, gays, transgenders, asexuals, everything and everyone in between. Welcome to the country that put the first man on the moon. Welcome to the country that is still in party-mode because the Cubs won the world series.
Welcome to America, the land of freedom of religion. Churches, temples, synagogues and mosques. The land of Martin Luther King Junior. The land of Henry Ford. The land of the Wright Brothers. The land of Ball Jars. The land of Bud Light. The land in which athletes compete for their collegiate teams. The land in which you are innocent until proven guilty. The land in which you have the right to remain silent.
Welcome to America, the land in which you can burn the stars and stripes, if that is what you choose. Welcome to the place of unimaginable freedoms. The land in which you can watch ESPN at 4:00am. The land you can order Insomnia cookies to your door step. The land in which you can post your political opinion on Facebook, as if anyone cares. The land in which you can riot and destroy public property, without punishment, because of who was just elected president. The land in which females have the right to an education. The land in which you can find yourself, lose yourself or make something of yourself.
Welcome to America, the land of which people die trying to protect. I ask all Americans to stop pointing fingers at each other, at Donald Trump, at Hillary Clinton, at Barack Obama, at our police force, at the Congress, at the FBI. Instead of pointing at them, take a look in your mirror. Are you becoming part of the problem, or part of the solution?
Welcome to America, the land where thousands of people are throwing tantrums because they didn't get their way. News flash: that is life. People in other parts of this world are starving of hunger, dying of disease, suffering of social injustices, religious restrictions and many other things. In that regard, please, fellow Americans, if you have such a problem with the ways things just turned out, go somewhere else in this world and start changing it for the better. You are shaming the country I feel so blessed to live in.
