I’m sure you’re all reeling from all the events that have happened in the past weeks—a fairy tale Royal Wedding, a decade long manhunt done with. Especially since as we have definitely learned, these things are massive enough to have ripples that will last for a long time. The Royal Wedding may have been a nice break from all the chaos that the Middle East and Africa have experienced, hearing CNN correspondents giggle was a welcome break to their staid yet worried tones reporting all the uprisings. Especially since we know that in Libya, things have not stopped and in Syria, things are just about to begin.

But with Osama Bin Laden’s death, it may mark a sigh of relief for a nation forever plunged into a constant state of fear, but it also raises a lot of big questions. Like for example, do we continue with torture just because it works? Or can we truly justify the killing of a criminal who was unarmed? Or are we a nation hungry for gruesome photos of death? The questions continue, even ones we don’t really want to ask, like can our service men and women come home now? And more importantly, are we truly safe?

And maybe it is fine that things have settled down a bit, even as the Mississippi floods, we have time to truly look at ourselves and so whom we have become. Especially as we are right about to enter an election season, one that might prove to be as significant as 2008. And as we go on our everyday lives, maybe we will truly understand what it is to be an American, a nation of immigrants. E pluribus unum.