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The world is changing fast and nobody asks for my permission

One morning last week, I opened the same email program I have been using for years to read my email and I discovered that, to my surprise, the program had changed and that now includes features it didn’t have before, features that I don’t like, and I didn’t request and, in my opinion, make the program run slower.

I have to confess I was both irritated and frustrated because, first, nobody told me in advance about the change and, second, the change was done in such a manner that there is no way of going back to the original program.

Suddenly, without previous warning and without my input or even my desire, I am now forced to use a program I don’t like and, if  I want to access to my email and keep my current address, now I have to do complicated things I didn’t have to do before.

What happened to me with my email program is similar to what at a larger scale is happening to all of us with all the changes in our country and in our world.

Day after day, as soon as we wake up and open our eyes to the reality of the new day we realize that reality has already changed, without ever consulting us and without any concerns about how we are going to be affected by such a change.

Two examples. Just a couple of weeks ago, the Nebraska Court of Appeals said that if a parent leaves his or her children in the United States because that parent is being deported, such an action is considered “abuse or neglect,” and the parental rights of the deported immigrant are terminated.

Recently, a report prepared by the U.S. Government Accountability Office (GAO), the investigative arm of Congress, revealed, first, that there is a growing cooperation all over the country between local police departments and federal immigration authorities, creating fear among immigrants and, second, that such cooperation is affecting mostly citizens and legal residents who happen to look like immigrants. Reports in Colorado and in other states confirmed GAO’s findings.

Reality is breaking apart and reconstructing itself in such a way that not even the creative imagination of George Orwell could have anticipated the world we now live in.

We live in a time when parents are first forced to leave their children and then accused of abandoning those children and in a time when laws created to detected undocumented people are affecting mostly those who were born here or are here legally.

There many more examples of sudden, unanticipated, and even unwanted changes, shocking us every day, creating uncertainty and shaking the meaning of our presence on this planet.

Those constant changes of direction in social issues, economy, and politics represent more than anything else, if you pay close attention, a moving cry for help by all those who, in spite of the position they have, are being overwhelmed by such extraordinary circumstances not even they know what to do.

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