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People can change – annie’s blog

People can change. The only limit on what you can learn in a lifetime is how many years you get. There is not a hard stop on openness or curiosity. Change is difficult but people can change. It is right to ask them to do so because things change when people change.

“We lead the world because, unique among nations, we draw our people—our strength—from every country and every corner of the world. And by doing so we continuously renew and enrich our nation. While other countries cling to the stale past, here in America we breathe life into dreams. We create the future, and the world follows us into tomorrow. Thanks to each wave of new arrivals to this land of opportunity, we’re a nation forever young, forever bursting with energy and new ideas, and always on the cutting edge, always leading the world to the next frontier. This quality is vital to our future as a nation. If we ever closed the door to new Americans, our leadership in the world would soon be lost.”

Ronald Reagan

Our family rules:

We don’t Door Dash. We don’t Uber Eat. We don’t Shipt. We don’t get it delivered. We don’t drive up. We don’t drive through.

We pick up. We get out of our car. We go in. We talk to the cashiers. Sometimes the cook. We say thank you to a person.

What happens if us becomes them? What if they become us? What if they always were us and we always were them? What if there never was an us versus them or them versus us?