Vita Genuit in Statera Hopes & Dreams Nathan N.

# Initium Novum

**By Nathan Narvaez**

Our reign, humanity on Earth is coming to an end. We, our world, are a dead plant. We can no longer revive ourselves. We must plant a new plant, cultivate it to be the plant that makes our hopes and dreams come to reality. This is why we are going to outer space, to a new planet, because we have failed. We have failed as a civilization, as people, as leaders, we have failed as humanity. It is something collective, all together. We have all done wrong and when you multiply that by the amount of people in the world it leads to a world of wrong. Wrong relationships, heart to heart connections, economy, government, lives. It is not to be pointed and blamed at a single person. We are all to blame. The problem is humanity, we are not perfect, we were destined to meet this outcome. Can we do anything about it? In reality the answer is no. We will always end up back at this outcome.

There is so much that has led us to this fate. More than we can all imagine. We have gotten to the point where it is so easy to do the wrong thing. But what is wrong? What is right? Who is to judge? The justice we all swear to keep. The justice we all swear to enforce. By raising our kids, talking to others, being that influence through the way we live and behave. Is my justice right? We all have different forms of justice, we all have different ways of enforcing our justice. Not everyone will be content. America, for example, was built so that everyone could believe what they wanted. In theory this is what we all strive for, world peace. How did America do? They have had civil wars, they have bigotry left and right, their country is deteriorating at one's feet. It did not work for America. They tried to build their country so it could be a sanctuary for everyone. They tried to build a place where everyone can be at peace with each other regardless of their dissimilarities. They failed, we can say they tried but even at the formation of their country racism was prevalent. They used enslaved people for the forming of their country. The belief of equality and world peace was shattered. But, in the end, there is a string of hope we must hold on to.

It is not just America. It is the world. No place in the world has been able to do what we all hope to achieve. To have no more problems. It is because of the greed of humanity why we can not achieve what we all strive for. But we see that throughout history everyone tries to achieve it in different ways whether it is through brute force or through freedom, we always fail. Why is this? It is because we are human. Sometimes we want to do what we think is right but we end up doing what is wrong. We want to have this peace and equality but our actions say the opposite. There is a lot that contributes to it, but the most important part is our humanity. The humanity that can lead to record breaking revolutionary discoveries, to the beautiful connection of hearts within people, within unity. But it will also lead us to fall to greed, to temptations, that is our nature, we are flawed. It is the path we take that determines what outcome we will come to. But, as of now we have taken the path where we have an unquenchable thirst for more money, more power. This creates a barrier between us and others which is humanity's most important tool, we must use it to our advantage. But we don’t. We try to go in the opposite direction. Money for example, can form more than one barrier. Geographically, wealthier neighborhoods and people tend to live secluded or gated. Emotionally, because of this greed for more and more money we create this barrier between others, we seclude ourselves, we can’t think rationally, we do everything just to gain more money. This leads us to pushing others away and thinking quantitative instead of a human's strong suit which is qualitative. When we push these people away we begin to lose that emotional connection with others. That emotional connection every human needs. We do it for the money and for the power.

In a world where money and power seems to be everything. What can’t you do with money and power? Because of our world we have been brainwashed to believe that is everything, to believe we need it to survive. But in reality we do, because of the way our world is, we need power and money to survive. It should not be like that. We should have a world where money and power does not equal survival. We should have a world where we don’t have to be constantly fighting and failing over and over again to achieve this peace and equality we all want. But this is another problem. Deep down we all want a world like that. But the people that strive in a world where it matters would not want to change it. To them it is a demotion for everyone to be equal. For the people that have all the money and power it is a disadvantage to have the same as others, it is a decrease in what they have. What can we do?

We create a new form of government, economy. This is our chance, we will make a government that will never skew towards an oligarchy, an economy that is not built off of money and power. We must create a new form of government. A form where all the power is divided equally and no one has more than another. This will lead to no imbalance of power and to equality. We must create an economy, a world that is not zero sum. We must break the limit that class and status impose. We must venture to the uncharted. Explore something new. We must try something we have never tried before. Go out of our comfort zone.

We need to be the change. Us, the people. We had the power to turn the world to what it is right now. We are the ones who caused this. This means we have the power to turn it all around. If we have a shaky foundation we can’t correct it by building on top of it, it will just fall. We must make a completely new foundation. One that is immovable, unshakable. One where we can build on top of, so far, not to reach the heavens, but to build our own heaven here, united. There is always a flip side to the coin. But, at the point that we are right now, we can not change the way our world is. Something rooted so far deep can not be unrooted. We must plant a new root. That is our last hope, that will reach our dreams. The hope with our world was false, it was all false, we failed from the instant we arrived. We must walk, no, run towards a new beginning.

This new planet we are going to has given us light. It has given us that string to hold on to. We have a chance to start at the line we are way past now. We must come together and do our best. Do it for yourself. Better yet do it for the people you care about. Your family, your children, and their children, and their children. For the generations. We must preserve them. They are the future and we must guide them to success. They will be our legacy. We have the wisdom our failures have so graciously given us. We must use that to our advantage. All the experience we have gained through the hundreds of thousands of times we have failed must be shared. With all this in mind we must build a new civilization. One where we don’t have to worry about whether or not we will die tomorrow. One where we don’t have to fight to survive day and night. We have been chosen.

Just because we are destined to meet this fate does not mean we can’t try again. We mustn't give up. We have fallen more than any number can describe. This doesn’t mean we should stay on the ground. We must try again as many times as we have failed. This means we just need to get back up again. But this time we go farther than walking, we fly.

Let us rise to the cry of our future. It is time to let go of the shield and charge with our swords. We need to build a new government. We need to build a new economy, a new nation. A new world. We have been given the opportunity to break the barriers of our world. We have been limited for too long. This is our chance to rise, to come together, to unite as one. We must break the limits, the barriers of our world and create a new one without them. Listen carefully, We were not born with these limits, we imposed them on ourselves. Now, we have been gifted the opportunity to break those limits we imposed and create a new world with no limits. It is for the future of humanity.