Living a full life is not measured by your quantity of life but the quality of life.

Anne Marie Frank

The Diary of a young
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"What a wonderful thought that some of the best
Days of our lives haven't even happened yet"

It's actually is rather peculiar in a completely horrible in the saddest way that this quote was written by Anne Frank. Is beyond optimistic considering what destiny had in store for her. The world feels like they have a special connection with Anne Frank and her family because most of us have read her memoir in either Junior High or High School, but for those of you who have not read The Diary of a young girl. The story is about a family who is trying to survive the invasion of the Nazis in Amsterdam during World War II. Two separate families hid in an annex disguised behind a bookcase in a warehouse, that the patriarch of the Frank Family worked at. The 15-year-old school girl and her group were discovered two years later on August 4th of 1944 eight people were arrested and taken to concentration camps located in Nazi Germany. Anne and her sister were taken to Auschwitz, however in November of 1944 both where transfered to Bergen-Belsen concentration camp. In less than a year toward the end of February early March of 1945 they were both dead. The only member of the Frank Family to survive was their father Otto. Otto return to the warehouse where they had spent two years cramped in a small room and there he found his daughter's diary that she wrote in almost every day. Remembering his young daughter writing in this book. He recalled her saying how she wanted more than anything to be a writer. She wanted to show the world how it looked from her perspective. And without ever knowing that is exactly what she did. She gave the world a inside look of the lengths that the Jewish community would go to just to continue to exist. She helped us understand how brutal  humans can be to one another. How they can treat each other like they are less than human. Just pawns of a war that they should never have been a part of. Even reading the words in print that she wrote with her own hand we still could never completely understand or relate to what this family and millions of other people had to go through in order to be viewed as people.

The story of Anne Frank has been viewed in several different ways. Some people feel as if we really have no idea what actually happened to her because her diary ends before she was arrested. Some people think that she escaped from the concentration camp and that she was able to start a completely new life under an alias. Maybe she just became a story that people told each other in order to feel like their story was being told and coming forward with all of it's dirt and grime. We really just don't know what actually did happen to her, what she endured but we do know that her story may have been unique to us yet thousands upon thousands of people shared her experiences, in person or threw a book, or stories passed down from generation to generation from family members who could have been snuffed out for just existing, annihilating an entire family lineage. It makes us think of how easy life can be taken and the lengths the human spirit can endure to survive. In the end Anne was anticipating what would be waiting at the end of her struggle, knowing what her family had to do was what was necessary to thrive against a foreign invasion that was sure to end soon. She looked forward to better days. Even if better days where not promised. 

Today we see people give up and give in to social standards even if they don't believe what they are giving their lives up for. We see our children feeling that they do not have to, comply to what the world has to teach. Our future is in the hands of a society that doesn't want to learn our historical lessons, they are to busy trying to not offend anyone who is not part of the social norms from the past. Our history teaches us that when men are finally paying for their sins, the answer in their defense is usually " I was following orders" or " I was doing what I was told or taught" never that "I  was a monster who should pay for my own actions". 

Why should they when the world defends them along with the people they set out to destroy for just existing. 

This year Anne Frank would have been 93 years old, decades later we know her name as well as our own, her story is always being rehashed for future generations to be involved and informed yet we continue to be blinded to the hate, and close mindedness that we should have acknowledged as injustice to human life. Our Nation was built from people taking from others that were considered savage and to uneducated to be a real threat to their European way of life. Instead of viewing them as equals they tried to get rid of what was standing in their way. They tried to kill them with disease, push them off their own land, domesticate them to comply with their way of life, and in the end they tried to take everything that made them who they were by whitewashing their youth taking even their names, forcing a foreign religion on them, and allow their culture to died. Making them ashamed of everything they had been taught. We haven't learned what human life is worth until someone takes it from you. Sometimes it's death, sometimes it's a life that is not what you thought it would turn out to be, but maybe our best day's of our lives haven't even happened yet. What a wonderful thought....