Independence day

“I will be independent.”
She thinks to herself as she sits in a home that is not hers.
“I need no one”
She thinks to herself as she longs for company to confide in

She is determined
As she aimlessly wanders searching for meaning.

Life, Liberty and the Pursuit of Happiness.
The right to them does not in fact give her an independent life, liberty from obligation or allow her time to pursue happiness.

She sits in a home that is not hers, eats food paid for by someone else’s labor and restlessly sleeps while dreaming of fireworks to celebrate. Celebrate what?

Her government is dependent on other nations.
Dependent on foreign oil. Dependent on foreign investors buying our dollars. Dependent on foreign producers making goods at prices we can afford to buy. Dependent on foreign consumers to buy the things we can only afford to make.

So we have no occupier.
Does that make us free?
We certainly lack value, a priceless mess of cultural contradictions.

She sees the contradictions in her thinking.
Revising her mission she now vows
“I will be as independent as Americans”

It’s now okay to stay at home.