Here in America we have been afraid for so long. Afraid of terrorists, afraid of everything. That fear came from the World Wars. We experienced something terrible in the World Wars. And we have become afraid of those feelings, because we never realized what those feelings were. And when the September 11th terrorist attacks, and other things before that in the early 90's, made us feel the same way, we became afraid of those feelings because we didn't realize what those feelings were.
Those terrible feelings was a broken heart.
America and the modern world have a broken heart.
From thinking of all those innocent people who died in the World Wars. Thinking of all those people dying gave us a broken heart.
Here in America we never successfully identified what those feelings were. We thought that they were something mysterious, and terrible. We tried to put them out of our mind. But in the early 90's they came back, when America became weary. Then they really came back after the September 11th terrorist attacks.
And all this time we thought that those terrible feelings were something mysterious and terrible. And we became afraid of those feelings. Because we never, in America, identified them for what they were.
A broken heart.
The broken heart you get when someone dies.
Nothing hurts more than a broken heart. But we know how to deal with a broken heart.
There is nothing else out there as terrible as a broken heart. The rest is just material things. If you can face a broken heart, everything else is easy by comparison.
And we know how to face a broken heart here in America. A lot of our pop music in the old days was devoted to dealing with a broken heart. We know how to deal with a broken heart.
We just never realized that that is what that fear and pain is. The fear and pain from the World Wars. The fear and pain from September 11th.
We never realized that that is a broken heart.
We can handle a broken heart. But first we have to stop being afraid of those feelings.
We have to stop being afraid of the fear of terrorism, of the fear of racism, of the fear of drugs and gangs. And recognize it for what it is: a broken heart. The broken heart you get when a good person dies.
But we know how to face a broken heart. We just have to stop fearing those feelings.
God loves you!
Sincerely,
David S. Annderson