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America never lived without a little technology. He had always relied on someone else, no matter how many times he said "I'm independent!."
He never had castle's, he never had knights and kings and queens. He didn't know what it was like to live peacefully, he didn't have long time friends, he didn't grow up knowing someone or having a rival. He couldn't find a message from God in his land, he couldn't explore his land and find a great, adventurous story in every rock and every building.
China had lived most of his life without a hint of technology aside from a knife, England and France had a rich history filled with castle's and battles, and art, and love; Italy had lived his whole life content with just a paint brush and pasta.
America was over 200 years old.
Everyone else he knew had lived for thousands of years, they had seen the worst of the worst and fought against Hell itself. They had watched love and been in love and watched it disappear before their own eyes. They watched great poets be born and they didn't need anyone else to survive because they had gone through it all. They had memories of exploring, of finding a new place, and lying in a field without knowing of pollution in the air.
He didn't have his own people, every human in his land had come from another, whether through ancestry or from immigration. He used to have his own people, people who he could call true Americans, but not long after he was born they were all chased away.
And it was because all of this, that America knew he'd never be the greatest nation. He could only invent, he would never find. He was always going to a child, and he'd always be dependent. All because he was born knowing it all.
He would never be the greatest nation because he was young. He would never be old, and he'd never be wise. No, he would never have to go through the terrors the others had. He didn't have to see the Romanov's killed before his own eyes like Russia, he didn't have to see Joanne D'Arc burn on a stake like France, he didn't have to watch someone he trusted with all his heart leave him like England...
And because of this, he'd always be young, and he'd never be old, and he'd never have that wisdom in his gaze as the others did. He'd never be as brave, wise, or as heroic as any of them had always been.
AN: I don't know where this came from, but it's true. America is young, and in both the real world and Hetalia, he will never be able to experience the most amazing things, along gain the same sense of art, adventure, and discovery as all of those others had. Hell, even Canada had existed before him with the Vikings.
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