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Is the world split for you?
It’s no longer just Republican vs. Democrat, or liberal vs. conservative. It’s the 1 percent vs. the 99 percent, rural vs. urban, white men against the world. Climate doubters clash with believers. Bathrooms have become battlefields, borders are battle lines. Sex and race, faith and ethnicity … the melting pot seems to be boiling over. Divided America is a multimedia series that explores the divisions of confronting Americans in their communities and their politics. AP’s unique position in every corner of the country makes for unmatched insight into the economic and social forces driving the American discourse in 2016 and beyond.
Is it always like that for you too?
I see people tired and down, I see people active and smiling, I see people with frowns and sweat and I see people jumping like madmen. Is the universe so unfair to put some through hell and give others all the good stuff?
But when I see with my instincts instead of just seeing with my eyes, I get to know the one with a smile is suffering through severe illness and the one jumping up and down is sixty years old. Strange?
It’s been a while I just sit there quiet and observe the world and it’s weird ways… and today I’ve come to a conclusion to write about it. I’m not quite a mathematical person but I sure found a formula and it sure doesn’t have any XYZs in it (blessing).
You see there is this man in a hospital for two weeks whose window shows a small patch of flowers from the outside garden, he sits there with the curving lips half-opened eyes sighing with every sip of his homemade vegetable soup when the man on the opposite bed turns to him and asks
