30 Day's Of Rachel - Day 05, Your beliefs

"Anger and intolerance are the enemies of correct understanding." - Mohanda Gandhi


To be honest, i have been slightly nervous about this post. Mostly because i was looking at it from a religious standpoint. I dont have a riligion that i believe in and im still a little shaky on the god front. But with some of the things that have happened in the world this week i remembered that beliefs aren't nessisarily religious ones, they can also be things your support, or believe strongly in. So that is the kind of belief i am going to be talking about today. For most people who read this blog this is not going to be a subject that you paricularly want to hear about, but it's something i feel inclined to address. In the last few weeks there have been several teen suicides, the cause of these suicides came from bullying that these kids recieved due to their sexual oriantation. Now i dont know what these kids went through, i dont know what it feels like to be discriminated against just because you arn't what people call "normal" However, i do know what it feels like to be in such a dark place that everything feels like the end of the world, i do know what it feels like to be so hurt and so sad that the idea of being done seems like just about the best thing, even if it meens ending it yourself. I know what this feels like. Luckily for me, i had people who loved me enough to pull me back from that edge. But when i see these kids that were not lucky enough to have someone to pull them back, it breaks me heart. It breaks my heart because that could have been me. And then when i see that the reason these kids resolted to this was because of something as stupid as who they had a crush on, it makes me so angry. I know that people do not see this the way that i do, and i know that some people may never see it the way that i do, and you know what, i dont care. I mean sure, it would be great if people could accept it, but i would settle for people just understanding, i would settle for people just realizing that their hate and closed minded nature is litterally killing people. Now i may be a little shaky on the god front, but im pretty sure that he crys just as hard for the gay kid that killed himself as he does for the straight one. Im pretty sure that he cares just as much about the gay kid as he does about the sraight one, that he loves the gay kid just as much as the straight one. So why on earth cant we? I just dont get it. I dont get how people who pride themselves on being loving, and open, and godlike, can be so cruel and so hateful. I mean i look at these people who are so against it and i just want to scream. I want to scream and say, you know what? get over it! get over it because it is not your life, get over it because it is not your love, get over it because it is not your choice, and get over it because it is not your right. It is not your right to tell someone how they can live their life. It is not your right to tell someone who they can love. And it is most definitely NOT right to discriminate, and hate, and tease, just because you dont agree or you dont understand. Most the people i know do not believe in gay rights. I mean i know a lot who do, but for the most part, the people i am closes to are very against it. Sometimes, this gets really hard because i believe so strongly in it, but the thing that is the hardest is that i know that these people are not bad people. Take my family for instence. Everyone but me in my family thinks that being gay is a sin, and it kind of amazes me. It amazes me becase my family is a very loving and understanding family, so it's hard for me to understand why they are so discusted and closed off when it comes to this topic. But i guess that's just how life goes. Not everyone is going to understand, and there is not a whole lot i can do about that. All i can do is make sure that i do understand, all i can do is make sure that im not one of those people who are discusted. All i can do is make sure that i am loving and open minded, and hope that maybe one day, that inspires a few other people to do the same. So now that i have been talking forever i will end by leaving you with a link to a video that a friend sent me. I hope that whoever reads this will be willing to put aside their pride long enough to really listen. Because this is becoming an epidemic, and our world needs people to start listening. After all, the last thing that we need is another beautiful soul being taken away to soon due to something that is as preventable as this. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_B-hVWQnjjM