The Lost Nation: United States of America

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It was the year 2018 when I was around to graduate from high school and I received the college acceptance letter from Harvard and MIT after unfolding the letter in the mailbox. I was thrilled and scurried back in the house to inform my parents. Its when I trotted in, I felt this sullen feeling pervade through the atmosphere and permeate objects. My parents grinned eyes glued on their stock portfolio and ears expanded toward the business channel on the television.

“There has been a breaching crisis that hit the stock market and every industry in the Nation today. The Dow Jones Industrial Average fell 91 points.” The news correspondent grumbly reported.

“Honey, the annual returns from our investments. Our savings accounts in our banks have been nullified. All of our property have been mortgaged to debt bond investment firms.” My dad frowned as he notified mom with her eyes bulging out provoked to cry.

He then glanced at me and gaspingly murmured, “Son, if you have been accepted into the college of your choice, I am sadly to say we have barely any pennies to pay for you college tuition.”

The last time we had an fiscal crisis that impacted my family was the year 2008. Before that we were doing just fine. A happy family. Fulfilled and balanced living style. An Harmonious community. I had lived in an “American Dream” achieving the “Pursuit of Happiness”. Well this exuberant ‘utopian’ life did not last long when the economic crisis hit our nation. People lost their job leading to an surge in unemployment and us currency deflated while prices inflated breaking the balance of out life style. Weeks later there were investigative reports centered around scandals in major corporations and investors cheated by Ponzi scheme large firms hel...

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...y toward this decision to leave and venture off into the unknown world. I profoundly contemplated and I reflected back at the documentary film I watched before all this crisis emerged called Happy with people situated in Denmark fulfilled to dwell in an utopian community.

The next day I initiated my plan to leave the US unnoticed and quick. I traveled during dawn and dusk and settled during the day. Every a week I would scavenger for food and packed meager amounts of bundles enough for each week. When I stepped out of the barren wasteland I had previously dwelled for most of my time a war welcoming nature brought me back to the character of whom I am before all this happened.

My journey does not end here. I continued to search for the utopian community of my heart through my natural instinct. And to this day I still dream of my would-be life in this new community.

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