This was another prompt which was "Netherlands and Humans"
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The Lucky Ones
"Humans are lucky."
Netherlands said this to no one but himself as he sat on his balcony watching the humans below go about their daily lives.
Sometimes he wondered what it would have been like if he was born a human instead of a nation. To have a mother and a father. To grow up normally, like go to school, play with friends and not have to worry about politics or whatever. To get married, grow old and wrinkled and then die.
He wondered what that would have been like. He knows what death feels like. Every nation knows how it feels to die, of course. All of them have been shot or have drowned or, for a few of the unlucky ones, to know how it feels to be burned alive. But they always came back to life afterwards. Always, like a never ending cycle. But for humans, when they die it is final. They never do come back. They go off to whatever afterlife there is out there.
'Is there an afterlife for me?' he thought. 'Where does my kind go when we finally die? Or is there nothing waiting for us?'
He felt a dark and sad cloud creep onto his soul as he thought this. He is familiar with this feeling, like it is an old friend and usually he goes and smokes or drinks until he can't feel anymore and it goes away for a while.
'The humans can also choose their own destiny, but I can't. I'm stuck like this,' he thought bitterly. Sure he does have free will just like them, but in the end he just has to follow what his countrymen wants, not him.
"Why should I keep doing this? It's clear they don't need me here. Maybe I should just leave for a while…" he thought out loud.
There was a sudden out cry of laughter, and Netherlands is jolted out of his thoughts. He looks down to see his neighbor's youngest daughter was playing tag with the other neighborhood kids. She glanced up and saw him. She smiled and gave a little wave before going back to play.
Netherlands smiled and waved back and watched as she ran off.
"Yes…Humans are lucky."