She is a Law

NOTE:
Teenager in Spanish is adolecente, which comes from the word adolecer that means that something is missing.

A nation is a teenager. The two of them change constantly, have billions of small problems, are exhausted and have a profound hunger for liberty. Also, both feel there is a gap in the puzzle they are trying to figure out. Teenagers search there answer in parties, books and experiencing new activities, while a country searches for answers within different bases such as economics and politics. In addition, they are stuck between finding an identity and the path they will follow, and discovering themselves.

The difference between these two is the guidance they can turn too. Who helps a teenage find its identity? Who pulls out a teenager from the black whole they have fallen to? Who helps the kid cut the cycle of mistakes and confusions? An adult is the responsible for such actions. Any adult can be a stable and confident source to look up to.

On the other hand, what is the nation’s adult? I believe the most common hypothesis between people, would be the nation’s ruler. Nevertheless, a ruler is a human that makes mistakes, and is as lost as its nation. For example, King Henry VIII of England changed entirely his position towards the church, not knowing if it will benefit the country. So, if a nation seeks up to a ruler like Henry, it would be the same, as if we trusted ones’ life in a card game.

However, just like in a card game there is a remote possibility of winning, and for England its victory was Queen Elizabeth I. I don’t think of Queen Elizabeth as a queen, or politician, or president or any known term, I consider her an adult, a mother. I am sure; a nation has to seek up to a constant and secure person that will guide it the same way for several consecutive years. If this process fails, like it has been happening al over history, a nation’s formation is interrupted, and will never finish growing. “The queen’s motto was still what it always had been: Semper eaden, Always the same.” (pg. 2) Therefore, during Elizabeth’s life, England was able to seek up to a trustworthy source.

Before I said that Elizabeth was a mom, but finally what is mom? I see a mom as the law because they both share the trait of constance. For example, America’s victory comes from the document that every American citizen has followed, since it was signed in 1776. They have a clear and concise idea of what they want and how they will act in order to get it, and it has been followed for a long period of time, enough time to form the most powerful nation in the world. In the other hand, there are countries such as Colombia, that are constantly changing policies and constitutions that break the growth of the country, such as the moment James arrived to throne.