OccupyKC My Findings

When I came to Kansas City 5 days ago to OccupyKC I did not know what I would find. Often a single mom in America is met with suspicion and let's just face it, many people are intolerant of children these days, especially children who are inclined to speak their minds about anything and don't just obediently obey orders to be compliant and quiet. Poverty also has a way of deleting you of all hope of acceptance and connection, so naturally I was terrified I would just find more of the same. Sometimes though, being completely wrong is the best thing that can happen to you.

Now I ask myself and delete sentence after sentence in an attempt to adequately describe what we have found here but the words seem hollow in comparison. Maybe there are simply no words to truly describe what is missing in mainstream society and what we have found at the occupation. Even the word compassion, which is thrown about so often by charities and organizations, doesn't grasp it, or maybe too many people use that word to describe something that isn't really it. Either way if you can imagine something of all the compassion you've ever known and multiply that by 99 you might get just get close enough to grasp it.

After that you would need to add acceptance but it's not the same one you know about because this kind is very rare and extremely difficult to come by. In fact, a person or peoples might wander their entire lives in search of it and never find it but of this kind we have suddenly found in great abundance free for the taking.

The word community comes to mind but again it's very definition as we've known it in this country once again lacks something. It's so watered down that you can barely recognize even the outline anymore. Here at the occupation they have the real version, and if you care about it at all, all I can say is you will have to come down and experience this for yourself. You would not believe me anyway.

Many other words come to mind now like beauty, trust, individuality, freedom, tolerance, diversity, and I could even go as far as to use the word love but nothing of the kind that you have been taught or even heard about for it only exists in theory in most places because it's always conditional. Here it is not.

Most people are in a daze or a haze, they are on auto-pilot conditioned to behave, to heed the drudgery, the alarm clock, the start of another day that doesn't excite them. For those that have no job to toil at, many just go back to bed to hide away from the falseness that meets them outside their doors but there's none of that here. If you don't get up you will miss something valuable for every moment people are connecting with each other and learning something new.

This is just a brief overview. I'm kept very busy here as there is always something to do or someone to talk to so I can't go into great details at this time.

So if you are afraid to venture out out of your comfort zone because of your thousands of bad experiences with main stream America, don't be.  This is the place to go to have your entire outlook on what it means to be human changed.  You won't be neglected here.  Every person is valued and appreciated.  Come and be among the awakened and those that know that if the change doesn't happen fast, very soon it will be too late. 

I'm Anni, ask around, someone will know me and find me and I will personally welcome you to the REAL WORLD.