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5 Reasons Why You Should VOTE!

With every thing that’s going on in our world we need to take a step back and really think about our future; if you have kids their future, your parents/grandparents future, even your neighbors future. Lets help make a difference in our communities this year with the general election. It may seem like a while from now but if your really think about it, time flies. The general election will be right around the corner before you even know it. Don’t let it get closer to the month of November before you get your registration taken care of. If you can vote, VOTE! and if you can’t vote then let’s educate ourselves because in all honesty this year was a wake up call for me, I’ve never voted in a general election (was too proud and didn’t think it mattered) and I’m just now coming around to understanding how important it is to do so. For the future of mine.

Here are five reasons why you should get registered and vote:


1. An Opportunity For Change.
You are not required to vote, but if you dislike the leaders who represent you or your ideas and interests and you think it’s time for a change than you should definitely take the time to research the people running for office and find out whether they seek the same ideas and interests as you.


2. Your Vote Matters.
When you don’t vote, you are allowing others to choose and speak for you. You are giving up your voice so that someone else decides for you on how you want things done. This is your life, when you choose not to vote, you’re not rebelling you’re just surrendering. Many people died for the right to vote.

3. Don’t Vote, Don’t Complain.
I’m not saying you can’t complain but if you want to express yourself, than I suggest you vote. 

4. Benefits To Voting.
“THIS IS AMERICA” You get to choose your own government and who represents it. 

5. The Youth Depends On You.
Be a role model because people (your children, younger siblings) are watching you to see how you do what you do when you do what you do, do make a plan to vote. So that when it’s time for the youth to vote that they know where to look for support. 


I hope you too will come to understanding the power of your VOTE.


I’ll leave you with this…

“It’s time now for you and me to become more politically mature and realize what the ballot is for; what we’re supposed to get when we cast a ballot; and that if we don’t cast a ballot, it’s going to end up in a situation where we’re going to have to cast a bullet. It’s either a ballot or a bullet,” the “Ballot or the Bullet” speech by Malcolm X in 1964.


Don’t know how to get started? Here’s a link to show you how to register to vote and deadlines in your state.

https://www.usa.gov/register-to-vote#item-212645

Start Here

HELLO AND WELCOME TO MOUNTAINMAMARU:

“When you have children, you’re reliving your life with different eyes. Whether you have a boy or a girl; it’s all YOU, just a feminine or masculine side of you. How do you begin to relive your life? How do you speak to YOU?” -Aruza Hasan

My name is Aruza Hasan, I was born in Kurdistan, raised in Nashville Tennessee and reside in Plano Texas. I know what you’re thinking, why in the world would you name your blog mountainmamaru. Well, grab your cup of tea/coffee and a date…

I don’t remember much of my childhood in Kurdistan but the little that I do know I’d like to share. The only memories that stick with me are not from my own memory but of others memories about me. However, there has been one memory that haunts me till this very day. One that I had never shared with anyone until recently, I called my parents up to see if they knew of what I was talking about, and they thought I was too young to have remembered that but that it is possible because it was subject to lasting shock as a result of an emotionally disturbing experience. I at the age of 2 1/2 or 3 experienced explosions. I vividly remember only a glimpse of that time, hearing a violent eruption, and I so terrified grabbed my brother to carry him to safety. Safety was a hole dug three meters deep and one meter in width; blocks of wood covered it along with something like a piece of metal sheet so that it holds up and on top of that dirt to cover it so that when bombs were thrown we would be protected. For three years my family along with five other families lived in an abandoned school. There were six classrooms and each family would live in one class room. In 1988, a lot of Kurdish soldiers and their families had to run away from a situation of danger, they never thought that they would depart from their motherland permanently. The Mountains have been a prominent natural feature and an emblem of Kurdish life, as ground for belief by the saying “Kurds have no friends but the mountains.” Mountains have been regarded as a thing revered by the Kurds. It was our getaway from reality and only for a short period of time were we going to stay.

From 1988 until 1991 my family and I along with other Kurdish refugees were put into camps in Turkey, where they had been consolidated into three camps. Two of them, consisted of concrete apartment houses and the third, was a tent camp. Freedom became fragile.

In 1991 Operation Provide Comfort began to bring humanitarian relief to the Kurds. About 5,000 Kurds resettled to Nashville. My family being some of them. I was six years old when I had arrived, I can’t easily grip my senses during that time period, I’m sure I felt fear though, easily embarrassed, quiet and self conscious.

I lived in Nashville for 15 years and moved to Texas in 2006. I think I’ll end it here for now and save my time in Texas for another post. I hope that you have enjoyed this read and that I have captured your attention and interest.

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