Echo For Now

Prolouge

They often say history repeats itself, of course I'm not talking about all that Susan B Anthony and woman's rights movements. They wouldn't know that all their efforts would be wasted, that a thousand years later they did practically nothing. They did what they hoped would help themselves, they did what they wanted, what was best for them. They were selfish, humanity is selfish, people do what is beneficial for them, not caring about others or who they could effect, selfish. That what I think started the war.

Everyone's got their own theory though, the government isn't exactly open to the idea if telling citizens why we practically tore apart the earth. The earth. That itself is so incredibly different now, in school they told us what the world was like back then, they say freedom was a waste, illogical, but I still can't help admiring the independent spirits. Back then there were contents, countries, cities, towns! Now there was the Easterns and the Westerns. The Easterns wanted to start humanity over from scratch, as a translation it means they want to kill half the population, tear down the cities and monuments and start over. They claim this is the only way to save humanity. Starting over. But if you think about it, is it really going to help those in the future? Getting rid of vaccines and medicines and all other elements of previous human knowledge? Selfish.

The westerns, who I happen to be a member of by birth, wanted to advance the world even more, join together in unity. they want to build up, not tear down. They want to make things better for themselves, even if in a few decades the factories and machines destroy the earth. Selfish.

That's just my opinion. Not that I'm going to have much of a say now, girls and woman aren't exactly considered equal to boys and men. We take this test when we turn 15. The Abilities test. It consist of five major parts, Emotional Health, Physical Health, Intelligence, Endurance, and Resilience. Everyone's suppose to take it by law, but of course it's obvious that just a formality no one has ever heard of a girl getting on the Soldiers of the Western Alliance . The S.W.A.

The luckiest a girl can get is for the test to tell her she will be a scientist or a nurse for the S.W.A. But most of the time girls getting stay at home mom! Pre-school teacher! Anything really that keeps them out of the way. That's the thing about the test it tells you what you do, where you belong in the social latter, and it's all decided on your 15th birthday. Mines next week.

My mom was a stay at home mom, she's not the brightest but she is beautiful, for as old as she is at least, unfortunately I inherited my looks from my dad. Short, Average weight, olive skin, and dark brown hair. I wore mine long. The only thing I got from my mom was her stunning grass green eyes, she use to joke that god had taken plants and mixed it with her blood, that's why her eyes were so green and she was so tall.

"I'm like a sprout!" she would say and smile extending her elegant pale arms to look like tree branches. It would make me giggle, which alway brought a smile to her face.

My dad was a former S.W.A. member, he had fought for 10 years before they told him to retire, he wasn't the best member but he fought diligently and hard. My brother took his test last fall. He inherited my moms looks and brains and had been assigned to be a government officer, which is just a small town police officer. Little respect. I could tell my dad was disappointed that neither of his two children would be S.W.A. Members me being a girl, and my brother being an airhead.

My test was in a week. In a week. In one week I would learn what I would do for the rest of my life, and honestly I don't think I'm ready.