THIS REALLY TOUCHED MY HEART-NAT

[Nat Quinn]

MY SON A YOUTH HAS BEEN HAVING A REALLY HARD TIME AND HE IS 14….I STUMBLED UPON THIS TODAY ON A TELEGRAM GROUP-I FEEL SO COMPELLED TO SHARE IT-PLS READ IT FOR OUR YOUTH!!!

SHARING…….

I wonder how many other children out there have a story to tell? This is my 16 year old daughters story. I had no idea she felt like this, back then, and now. We need to help give the youth a voice!

Before the Ottawa convoy, we had a convoy at the Manitoba/US border. I went with my mom. She said we were making history. I wasn’t fully awake at the time. But I took notice of how many people there cared. I say I wasn’t fully awake but that doesn’t mean I didn’t know everything that one who is awake, does. The corruptions, injustices, failures in humanity, and the treatment of the people by the ones in power. I knew the systems were failing around me.

But I had no desire to change it. I’d accepted it for what it was. It’s not like I was gonna be the next president and change it even if I wanted to? And I figured no one else would either, so this group of people rallying for a change, they were right, but making a mockery of themselves in my eyes. I figured I’d stay on the sidelines and watch.

My mom and brother went to Ottawa. Us back at home, got videos and pictures everyday. My brother had me in tears a few times because what I doubted, and told them was pointless, was something so much bigger than I could have ever imagined. The love they were receiving, was something I found myself longing to be apart of. I was mad at myself for not going. For not being a bigger person and standing up for what I knew was right. The respect I gained for my mom, and for every person in those months, is something I never thought I’d have for anyone. And, I experienced such guilt for standing on the sides. For not believing everything my mom had told me. For doubting, cause it was all true and there was thousands upon thousands of people standing up for ME, and all of humanity.

And then Trudeau invoked the emergencies act, and proved to me even more how corrupt the system is. If I had ever before felt that my mom and everyone fighting for my freedom was embarrassing, Ottawa showed me that would never be true. The number of people there blew my mind.

I know am not alone in this feeling. There are so many of us youth out there who know the truth now, because there are those hero’s everywhere.

I’d found a hope that allowed me to really open my eyes. But I didn’t wanna make a change or use my voice back then. Now, that’s all I want to do! I want to hear others stories too. And going back to saying I felt like I had no power and there was nothing I could do about it? I wrote my 2023 Unity Convoy speech about people like that. It was getting past that in myself, that brought me to where I am. And anyone who thinks like that, is allowing the bad in our world to continue. Finding our voice is all we need. We may not be in the billions but we can try and hope we will be heard. One by one. I am sure there are many youth who stood on the sidelines just as I did. Watched their moms and dads go to Ottawa. Ottawa gave me my voice, I wasn’t even there. Now, my passion is to help the others find theirs too!

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