The last land

W***hat it is***

Powerless is a holiday where people celebrate the equal distribution of power. Another comen thing to celebrate on Powerless is not needed or wanting to have all the power, because you are content with what you have.

***How the Holiday was Founded***

Powerless was first founded after " The Last War" of 2050. A war the lasted 10 years with over 4 million deaths. The war was started and lead by the 5 former leaders of our world. Each leader had every person that they could force to fight for them. Each leader died on December 31 while they were fighting each other. We do not celebrate that day though, we celebrate January 1 the day where the world was no longer under the influence of forceful controlling leaders. On January first our world joined together no matter what race, or sex, or any thing that would have separated us before and decided to live in peace with out the hope of being the **one** to lead the world.

***Traditions***

On the day Powerless friends and family gather together and each person brings 2 items. The first item is something they care about to remind people there is love in the world. The second item is food to resemble wealth, and prosperity. Each person puts in there object into a huge pile and they burn it. Then they share their food and talk for hours until there is nothing left in the fire but coals. these traditions were decided because after "the last war" people had so little things that they could call there own they decided not to make the holiday different based on how much you have. the first Powerless everyone brought the guns and weapons that had slaughtered those they loved. Roberta Newman a young women at the time who had been there for the first powerless said " we were all on the battle field were the 5 former leaders had died, and where most people had lost there loved ones. you could see pols of blood as far as you looked, there would be people standing over bodies weeping unaware of what was going on around them. There where so many fires and so many tears. but everyone had a story and everyone wanted to talk about it. i was so young at the time i could barley tell what was going on i just remember my mother saying hold on to me and don't let go people will do many things when they've been hurt."

T***he 5 Former Leaders***

The five leaders who lead the war were of all ages and all races. It showed the world that it doesn't matter who you are there will always be people wanting more, unless they know they have enough. The first leader to start the fight was a 20 year old man who lived in Guatemala until he was 18, and began to have hopes of leading the world. His name was akeem Lopez he had inherited millions from his parents but still wanted more. The second leader to act was a 50 year old woman from Russia named Popov Ivanov. She was an only child and both of her parents had died in a fire. The third and fourth leaders acted at the same time. They were named Abhay Patel, and Billy Smith. Abhay was a 36 year old man who lived in India as a Shudra. Billy was a 87 year old american who lived in Los Angeles California. He had 2 little sisters one of which died from a break in to his house and the other was severely addicted to drugs. The last leader to join the fight but most feared was a 16 year old girl from Italy. She never told a single sole if she had a family or where they were. People said she was a ghost, a devil, the earths evil spirits. But she was just a girl with a lot of fight in her.

Raia Lebreux