But we can't even keep track of a little robot we sent there. But things change. Or rather, we change and things remain the same. I came into twenty-eight years ago. There is still racism, war, starvation.
People still murder and thieve and rape.
Yes, women are in the workplace, but it doesn't prevent them from being objectified, or from throwing up their hands in frustration over their counterparts to the species. In short, we haven't evolved at all. However it came to be, I had a chocolate-coated view of the world and an individual's ability to have an impact upon it. Adults say things to make it go down easier, when really what we needed as children was to chase that placebo with a bitter shot of reality. A spoonful of medicine to help the sugar go down.