You reach in 

and depending on how you move

how you think 

how you learned

studied,

watched.

you can pull your hand out with so many things.

Maybe you got a hand full of berries. (Move on to a improved country)

maybe you cut your hands on every thorn. (Move down to another 4 years of pain.)

Maybe the berries are really poisonous. (Move down to a war with an innocent country)

maybe the thorns had a positive effect. (Move up to a somehow improved world.)

How did YOU pick your bush?