Our Broken World: A series of ever-changing opinions

Love is Love is Love is Love

     This is a world that is infamous for suppression throughout history, with conquests and captives, rich that make money off poor people, and the more subtle ways of keeping the lower class workers voices being heard from a common thing like voter suppression with all the crazy laws and id's needed and especially with the states that do not allow mail-in voting.

     This prevalent problem of the past is echoing through history, not the explosion of it, but all the dust and ash and shrapnel blown to pieces in the blast lie scattered everywhere, clouding the air and cutting into our skin. Is this really how we want to live? The longer we ignore these problems, the more likely it is that this wound will get infected, if it has not already. Some people are hit harder than others, closer to the bomb when it went off, or got an unlucky piece of shrapnel lodged in their arm. It is unwise to look at these people who have already been hurt, and to blame them for their natural human behavior and feelings, twisting the shard deeper into their skin or to cause more unneeded pain and suffering in the world.

     Some examples of this are the resounding effects of implicit biases, which give many people pause in loaning, employing, or selling houses and other things like cars out to people of color, or of a visibly different social status then they. And this is just what happens when we can see the differences in people. Imagine what it would be like if everyone could see how different they were from each other. Would the same 'in' groups form, or would everyone just be too different to ever fully get along with each other?

     People protect themselves by shutting down; we stop often talking when we're scared, but what would happen if people lived in constant fear? Would they never open their mouths? Why do we as a society suppress people based on such stupid things like sexual orientation? If it does not effect your life, then it should not matter. So what if the boy next door wants to wear a skirt to school, or the artsy girl wants to be able to kiss another girl? Why should you let other peoples personal lives matter so much to you? If this is the kind of stuff we get hung up about, then we will never be happy, because there will always some of everything in the world. That's how we know it exists, because it happened, is happening, or will happen in the known future.

     Love is love is love is love. I say this because I do not feel the need to hurt other people for something that they have little to no control over. Like the kid that dropped out of college mid way through with a full scholarship. Yes, it seems like a bad choice on the outside, but if you look deeper, then you might see that they could not afford to live in that country any longer because expenses were to great. So, they had to drop college. I say this, because I know that if I see someone walking down the street, I have no need to pry into their life, if they do not pry into mine.

     Harassment for something as minor as sexual orientation or gender identity is not going to help anything. All it does is hurt others and maybe it happens because someone is just too bored with their life and need to find something to be afraid of, or something to hate. It is a stupid way that we look upon the world, through the lens of 'why don't I have that', and it is ultimately our main reason for unhappiness as a general human population. We cannot see what we have, for everything we are blessed with is like a dot on the tip of our nose; everyone can see it except ourselves, and the best thing we can do is be aware of it and know that it exists. Live your life without butting into other peoples business, and you will be so much more happy, able to focus on you and your self care instead of focusing on someone else and what they are doing wrong.

     So what does it matter the preference of that random person down the street? It does not endanger you or your loved ones, and ultimately, that person probably does not care about you at all, much less feel the need to hurt you. What do you think a queer person would do? How much would that stranger really want to hurt you? Why does anyone have to fear them? The answer, they don't. No one does. They are just as human as everyone else on the planet, and deserve the same rights and care as such. Sadly, the world does not act the way it should. Never has. So please, spread the love, and try to make everyone feel like they have a place on this earth, or at least do not say anything negative about it.