Following the massive student protest that occurred last week, it’s clear to see that the youth of these days in America, are at the very least, “perturbed.”

With heavy hearts and weary bones do they trudge on in solidarity as if their country wasn’t the only one to be founded upon debating absolutely every single hypothetical facet of life? In March, mobilized in marching protest, like this isn’t a place where we contemplate wars like what cereal to eat in the morning and fear loss of rights as though it would leave us in a world with nothing left. Indeed, certain complexities in the scope of understanding, are akin to us trying to find a reason as to why the Alphabet falls into the order it does.

Could you imagine the sight of the majority of America’s able-bodied youth waging battle yet again, though this time, on the streets of a homeland whose guardians once did the same on foreign battlefields with the weapons now being protested, swearing that they were doing everything to protect what’s clearly fallen apart? As it were, the sight of tens of thousands of students across the United States protesting existing gun laws was as much ironic as it was a calling to arms so that we may immediately set upon a way to hem the fabric of a nation so torn, and finally bid a farewell to arms being raised in classrooms for the wrong reasons.

Though while these states united have a name that may entail unification, as of late, they’ve only ever been resolute in mobilizing in face of conflict. Perhaps in fashion with these newest seasons of correction, in which the problems arisen from the conduct of generations now past are being resolved, the United States of America may attempt to live up to its name at last.

And so, like students can march and cry stern decrees of somber condemnation with even sterner lines drawn in the sand for drastic measures, Congress too, can act. I would imagine, that with an even heavier heart and wearier conscience, does Congress now sit on Capitol Hill with a more than adequate ability to do what their youth demands of them to. The question now is: will they dare to do the inevitable?

As a student and one of those American young who are so often fit to be billed by elders “as the next generation of leaders,” I’d myself, regardless of politics, be hard-pressed to think of a scenario in which the leaders of today emerge victorious, as time says that the stress on their itty bitty hearts and minds can only be anatomically tolerated for so long. Because truly, what good is wealth and power, when those demanding changes have youth, are approaching prime, and have more than plenty of time? It’s nothing to note that these newest additions to America don’t run for reelection unless it’s to the polls for the most progressive party insight that’s receptive to their views. And so, in regards to our era’s defining wave of nationwide student protests, I’ve found that it’s often the case that two recurrent questions are asked by those in power and those seeking to be heard respectively.

Do their voices carry any weight?

Perhaps just enough of a weight on the shoulders and conscience of those in power who are reluctant to make a change so that they may at once realize the time for waiting is over.  

Do our voices have any impact?

This, if ever there was, is half past time for the display of the new and improved design of the divine, innocents who are not above getting their very own hands dirty when the consequences merit it. Young children, adults, and scholars who gladly know that words are best bonded in pacts bound by responsibility.