What Would You Be...?, by Morgan Hunter

What Would You Be...?

empowering women, families, and youth-at-risk through improved literacy, increased positive media, and tools for living.

By Morgan Hunter 2011

If I were to have the whole world at my fingertips (be it for an hour, a day, a week, a millennium), and if funding and failure were both not problems, I would devote myself to trying to find a way to alter the human genome and give humans wings. I think that all people need is a little push upwards to see that despite falling wages and an increasingly bleak world that’s about as friendly to dreams and aspirations as acid ever was to tender skin, there is still hope. There still exists a world beyond our expectations, and far above the post-industrial disenchantment that has sunk its metaphorical teeth into the populous and dragged us down into a world of ill-informed paranoia, anxiety, and ignorance. I firmly believe that if we, as human beings, experience a global paradigm shift that would allow us to soar into the one place humans look to when they hit rock bottom, we could overcome our earthly perceptions of our own limitations. Is the sky not a metaphor for hope and great expectations? Would wings not allow us to morph into beings able to transcend those expectations and truly reach for the sky, the moon, the stars? If we could take to the sky on wings of our own and know the feeling of weightlessness, then wouldn’t we be better off for it? I believe that being in a place where the only boundaries that exist are the ethereal clouds would allow people to rise above their own fears and make them strengths. I think if we could widen our viewpoints, and understand that we are not limited to the ground upon which we walk, we as a species could rise and leave the dust and the nagging doubts behind us and simply revel in the freedom of the sky.

Morgan Hunter is a junior at Campolindo High School. She enjoys writing, drawing, red pandas, not doing things in a conventional manner, being helpful, and watermelon.