After Trump sent missiles to Syria I really started to think about what would happen if World War III were to actually happened.
What if every man we knew was drafted in the blink of an eye and forced to go to war? What if they refused? What if woman and children were forced to go? Would woman go to war because now we are all for equality or would we pull the woman card so we wouldn't have to? Would they want a woman to stay home and take care of things while the men are gone? Would women start a woman's rights march to be allowed in the war? If we didn't want to allow our children to go, what would happen? If my boyfriend who spends most nights cuddled on the couch watching Netflix, was suddenly called to go to war with a day's notice-- what would I do? What would you do? If the war was brought into our towns, how well would our generation of "hipsters" protect us?
I'm not sure if I want to rest my life in the hands of a millennial who still lives at home with mom and is just waiting for his band to make it big. It's terrifying and hard to imagine that another world war could be upon us. To imagine the people who would be drafted is even scarier. I can't imagine my friends and family leaving on such short notice, the last kiss for what could be forever, hanging onto their last words trying to remember what their voice sounded like. It's scary to think about.
I'm thankful for the men and woman who have given their lives and voluntarily fight for our independence every day, I don't understand how they do it and I know I couldn't ever, but I am thankful. Unpredictability is scary, not know what our country has in store for us is scary, and wondering what our next move is and if it's going to jeopardize our nation is scary. I wonder if the voters had thought about any of this when they went in and made their decisions. To me, it feels more like a reality show where the nation just cast their vote to evict everything we have stood for and sent us all packing.
The idea of World War III is scary and I hope we don't have to face it but imagine if we do.
