Melissa Reddick

Americans are interesting. We are go-getters.

I know many of you believe the propaganda that Americans are fat, lazy, dumb, unkempt. I am talking to the Americans here, specifically. The ones who spend 24 hours a day on Tik Tok. Thank you for taking a break to come over to Facebook, Instagram, or Threads.

If you look at true Americans, not the ones that social media tells you to look for, you will see grit. You will see people who work hard and do not give up. You will see people working 24 hours a day to improve the state of the world. Stop letting social media convince you they do not exist. Or that they are evil when they succeed.

There is a real reason propaganda exists.

We have one major downfall, American people. It is that we care SO MUCH about success, getting ahead, being number 1, that we forget that in order to truly win, we have to be EVEN BETTER at being part of a team.

Not standing out. Not winning just to show we won. Not being the best and screwing everyone else over in the process. Especially not stepping all over our strongest teammates because we have this near-insane desire to be Number 1.

You can only come out on top when you have not trampled over the people who would help you climb to your highest heights. That is a temporary win, at best. What happens when your teammates recover from you stepping on their heads? How can they recover from you breaking their necks?

You can not get stronger when you chop your greatest supporters off at the knees because you feel smaller than ther are.

That is not how success will work long term. It works once. It works in short bursts. But are you thinking about the larger plan? The greater goal, the one that encompasses everyone?

Your slower teammates are. Your teammates who appear to be doing nothing, who walk while you sprint. When you stop to catch your breath they just glide past you. When you get another burst of energy, you jump on their back. That teammate is strong enough to carry you across the finish line, if he or she wants to. He or she is also strong enough to knock you right off and say “whoops, he/she fell”. Team work is a multi-way street. What are you investing in order to earn solidarity with your teammates, specifically?

This is where sports really help to shape relationships. If you are on a good sports team, your ego gets bruised so you can work together. If you are not, or if you are the star player, the coach will protect you without teaching you the fundamental rules of working in harmony with other people. This is where being a star hurts you instead of helps.

This is why so many Americans are isolated and alone, even feeling that way in a room full of other people.

This is why Corporate America *sucks*. Because we take what it takes to grow for granted. Many of us think “if you’re not great today, you will never be”. Thankfully, not everybody thinks this way. An overwhelming majority are stuck in this way of thinking though, and they do not want to change. That is until they have a mental breakdown and go insane, and their successor finally starts to wonder if maybe he or she should do things a little differently.

We have been taught in America to win at all costs.

You cared enough to get upset when your friend got a higher test score than you in school. I did it too. We did it because we had the spirit of a WINNER. THAT is the American Spirit right there! But if you never learned to harness that SPIRIT in a way that made you a better FRIEND, you failed the lesson regardless of whether or not you got a better grade in the end.

That is what we as Americans have to work on today. In ourselves, and for the generations that come next.

Whether or not we could ever get A’s in school, we are brilliant. At least we have the potential to be. School is not a good place to measure intelligence. The only place it really matters is on the street. In the boardroom, maybe, but that depends on the company.

We have to learn how to be better friends to one another.

Not the Kardashian family, back stabbing one another on TV for entertainment purposes. If you want your relationships to look like theirs, that is not the American dream. That is not even the Armenian dream (they are Armenian). The Armenian dream is to live a good life.

You cannot live a good life when your relationships suck. ESPECIALLY, first and foremost, when they suck with your family. But, even more importantly, you cannot live a good life if your relationship sucks with yourself.

Your relationship with yourself is the one relationship you can never take a break from. You can never escape. No matter how many pills you take, no matter how much sizzurp you swallow, no matter how much weed you smoke, dope you shoot up, fentanyl patches you slap on your body, you will never ever get to leave a room and have yourself not be there with you. As long as you are alive, and you are an eternal being that has never been born and will never truly die, you will always have you. Before you can have great relationships with anybody else, work on the one you have with you.

You get what I’m saying?

That is how you will be able to rest your head on your pillow at night and think to yourself “I know I am doing this alone right now, but at least I did everything I could to respect myself as a person.”

Self-care is more than bubble baths, sheet masks, and watching a movie instead of going out with friends when you need a night in. Self-care happens in every action you take that makes you someone you can point at in the mirror and say “hey, I respect you because of how you handled that situation. You wanted to degrade that guy when he stepped in front of you in line, you wanted him to catch these hands, but you kept your cool, and the world didn’t end, and you didn’t catch a charge. I am proud of you.”

But, and I am talking to the ladies now, you keep destroying your potential for harmony by gossipping, backstabbing, following in the Kardashians footsteps (I don’t know why you would, I don’t even know where they are going half the time). It will not get you where you are going long term. Meanwhile, the great American men and women will be over here, working on ourselves, and building a better America than the one you see today.

Do you think the people on your team won’t remember? They won’t care? They won’t be around to matter in a few years time? Just because they have to accept your nastiness today doesn’t mean they will forget when the tides change. When good-hearted American people start to really win, there won’t even be a battle. They will just stand up, shake off their shoulders, and get to work. Everyone else will be left in the dust wondering wtf just happened.

That can be the downfall of American people right there. Maybe it is because we buy cheap and disposable products. Many of us see other people as cheap and disposable too. People we can just use and they are “too stupid” to realize it’s happening.

My job as a Healer is to help those who want to get out of situations like that.

No, we cannot blame China on this one. Just because China makes products at a fraction of the cost and sells them that way too, people in America are the ones buying them up at insane rates. This is a reflection of what they see as the value of human life.

Do you want good relationships? Stop spending time with people who push cheap. ESPECIALLY those who want you to buy expensive, or at least expensive-looking products for them but then berate you when you “spend too much of your own money” on yourself. I know I am talking to the men here, specifically. In certain cultures, women focus on buying cheap.

That is not the American way.

If your woman manages your money like it is her own, you can find a better woman to date or marry. Unless that really works for you, and you don’t want to be independent. In that case, ignore me.

American people, if you are still reading this post, you have a choice to make.

Are you choosing to win in earnest, as a team? Or do you believe you are stronger on your own?

Or, do you not care at all, and you are ready to go back to TikTok where the algorithm will teach you not to care so much, but then present you with a deeply upsetting video that will ruin your whole day and your mindset about America once again?

I really hope you choose teamwork, but hey, if you don’t, the rest of us will be okay I’ve heard Iceland is a great country to live in. Greenland is even better, there are fewer people there I think.