saitaina | I remember…

Originally published at Memoirs of a Nobody. You can comment here or there.

I remember why I wanted to be President now. So that I could stare at world leaders and try to stop the wars I’ve spent my life watching on the news. So I didn’t have to watch another eleven year old who wants peace…grow into a sixteen year old wanting to kill themselves in battle.

A man who grew up with these wars…who tried to stop them, died today. He might have been a villian…he might have been a great man. But he was a man, trying to chage what he grew up with. Trying to help those children be safe. Trying to be a man, worth knowing.

President Yasser Arafat died tonight…and I weep, for the man I never knew, for the man I only saw pictures of. He had a dream to help stop the violence…though it failed more often then not. I share that dream. He died with his un-fullfilled, but he tried. I can at least give it the same effort.