From the Orlando shootings to the recent police shootings to top off all of the violence that has already happened this year, I'm here to state what everyone is thinking: I'm tired.

Being a millennial growing up in the United States, I don't remember an America that hasn't been ridden with countless problems, whether it's war, poverty, racism, sexism, or homophobia. Now, I know these problems have always been there, but now that people are calling attention to these problems, it's sparking violence across the nation.

I'm tired of turning on the television and witnessing death and injustice.

I know nothing can be fixed without a huge upheaval, but it's disheartening when I read about people who think that all the problems in the world were fixed long ago. I'm sick of being sad and angry and knowing that there's still a long road ahead before anything is going to be changed permanently.

Love. That has been the slogan after the Orlando shooting, and I think that should be the slogan for the nation. That's the only way our nation is going to heal after this horrendous year of 2016. Before drawing that gun and shooting a person you think is different than you, before you say something slanderous to someone who doesn't look like you or isn't in the same tax bracket, think with love. That's a person before you who has wishes, dreams, hopes, nightmares, fears, and people who love them, just like you.

It's time to stop acting without thinking. It's time to start acting with love and understanding that the mentality in America needs to change or the violence never will.