My home state is Louisiana.Recently, the state I call home has fallen victim to many misfortunes including the catastrophic flooding in Baton Rouge coupled with the highly controversial, divisive, and media hyped shootings involving police officers and civilian.This beautiful state has never been the type to quit though.Over coming all these tragedies will be easier hopefully in large part because of the start of the LSU football season.This is a community that fiercely rallies behind their beloved purple and gold tigers.Alongside it being football season, after a short wait the Louisiana State Fair will also be opening.Both of these activities will bring the state much needed income and surely many donations and acts of charity from the attendees.
The Pelican State also called Sportsman’s Paradise is home to some of the most humble and genuine peoples I have ever encountered.This melting pot of personality, income, and personal identity can all be experienced in one city, New Orleans.But there is an old and rapidly expanding city making a run for regenerated cultural identity.That city is Shreveport, which happens to be my hometown. Now I do have a personal bias from living here my entire life, but I have also traveled to a lot of other cities and nowhere else can stack up to this place. There is a growing port, a downtown scene and Riverwalk being revitalized among many festivals, Mardi Gras, access to multiple lakes, skydiving, Frisbee golf, a soon to open dog park, and a cultural awakening happening.This city is quite figuratively booming.
Disaster after disaster, protest to shooting, my hometown and home state have chosen to rise above the bickering and squabbling to instead extend hand after hand to help our brothers and sisters, friends and neighbors.This is truly a blessing.There was a period when I was much more pessimistic about the events that occur until I started focusing on the positive.I decided change will only happen through open communication. Something I feel my state is starting to capitalize upon. There is a change that is sweeping across the state. A change encompassing the philosophy of the golden rule, you know, treating others as you yourself wish to be treated.This is just the way of life in Louisiana, and it can prevalently be viewed through the media’s coverage of all the states controversy.
But which state is without controversy? Which nation is without debate over one issue or another? There are going to be barriers to break and walls to scale in every society or community as of now. Something that is slowly gaining momentum and accelerating toward change though. My generations largest contribution to peaceful society is transparency and communication.Millennial’s are breaking down these walls and inventing ways to go around the barriers that have prevented, or whether stalled our predecessors.No longer is conservative toleration a social normality.Now I am not saying toleration is fowl, rather though that progress is providing more peaceful opportunity for the greater advancement of our cities, states, countries and planet.
There are many things about my hometown I feel that are paving the way to world acceptance. It is because of these events, and obstacles that keep me motivated.It is my community and town that give me inspiration.It is a circle, life they say, so it goes around and what you put in to it comes right back round.
