Let the `’Light Shine

This past week we discussed the earth and our limited resources and global warming in my ethics class.  What a great heated debate.  But how it ties in with the immigrant issue is that for so many thousands of years, humans have migrated around the globe in search of the current green pastures.  In them the instinct (same as in the elephants and other migratory species)  that for a season one needs to go north, and then for the next season the greens will be flourishing in the south again.

With all this modern obsession about private property and keeping others off your land, humans have in a way very much disrupted this pattern of even giving the earth some space to breathe, heal and replenish.

I know I sometimes have little outbursts when I get angry at the fact that for almost 6 years now, I have kept within these laws of how immigrants should behave, only to be bested by supposedly “illegal” immigrants who work without a care, and lead their lives.  I realize that it’s not the other immigrants I’m angry at. It is my own sense of fear.  My fear that one wrong step may cause authorities to frown upon my application to a green card one day, and therefore I keep the laws and in the process sacrifice my sense of self.