Same Difference

“God, did you see Susan today? I swear, that woman should get a clue when it comes to makeup.”

“Lol, u kno she ratchet asf. Dat ***** is FUGLY.”

“I’m tired of seeing all these homo-faggots around here. It’s a sickness, I tell you.”

“She wears black all the time, doesn’t talk to anyone, and looks like a *****. I bet she’s a satan-worshipper.”

“Look at how fat he is! And that face…..disgusting. I’ll get him Proactiv for his birthday.”

“Those damn rag-heads in the Mid-West worshipping Muhammad. God’ll take care of them.”

“Non-believers are so stupid.”

How do these statements make you feel? For anyone reading, you probably recalled a time you said something similar to the first and second statement about another person, or a time when a similar statement was made about you with your knowing. You were angry, sad, embarrassed, and oblivious as to why someone would say such a thing.

For the bi-sexual, homo-sexual, and trans-sexual, the third statement should make you feel violated, judged, and pretty angry. I myself am bi-sexual, and there is never a time that I do not get extremely pissed each time I hear someone hating on these types of people.

The next two statements get more than personal for the reader. Everyone has been a victim of “bullying” at some point in their life. I know I was. Bullying can demolish one’s self-image.

The ending statements are religious, as you can tell. Religion isn’t really the best subject to get into, but this post shouldn’t be seen as controversial, by any means.

You’re probably wondering what the random, but destructive, statements’ purposes are. One: each statement holds a lot of bias in it. Bias- a particular tendency or inclination, especially one that prevents unprejudiced consideration of a question; prejudice. Susan might prefer her makeup that way. The “ratchet *****” is probably just another victim of harassment by snot-nosed kids. Those “homo-faggots” have a long, long story, and if you gave them the chance to share it with you, you MIGHT, might begin to understand how it feels to be on the outside, to be hidden. The girl who wears black might just like that color a lot, and maybe she doesn’t talk to you because she sees your ignorance and decides that she wont have any part in it.  That “fat” boy is beautiful, regardless of the pimples that nature places on EVERYONE’S skin through their pores, like ANY human being. The “rag-heads” were born into their beliefs, like many are, and they may just be comfortable with it. Non-believers, for whatever belief that they decide to not follow, have their reasons. If they didn’t like being a non-believer, they would convert.

My point being: Don’t cast judgment on others, for anything. There is no reason to. I understand what it’s like to think that you’re the only operating, functioning human on this planet with this great, full life. But, you’re not. No one’s special, if you dare to go beyond what your society says is special. Everyone on this earth is different, but we’re one in the same in the way that we all feel, think, behave, and live. We all bleed red, put our foot in one pantsleg following the other, hurt, laugh, dream, grow, age, love, destroy, and create. We each have a brain that has the same anatomy, same chemicals. There’s no reason to make a fellow human squirm under your words of prejudice and hate, just because they don’t look like you, talk like you, dress like you, have the same sexual preference as you, the same religion…you get it.

When you’re on your death bed, will you be looking back at your life and saying, “I’m glad I wore American Eagle”, “I’m so thankful for Ulta beauty products”, “All gays should die”, or “Screw Muhammad, Allah, Buddah, Jesus, etc.”? I don’t think so. You’re going to be looking back at your quick life and wondering if you made the right moves for yourself, and for those around you. You’re going to take a look in the mirror and realize that your actions and words throughout your life either make you uncomfortable, or make you feel ready for “the other side”. Materialism and how someone looked that certain day has no part in your last moments of life. So guess what? They don’t matter. Get over it.

Everyone was raised differently by different sets of parents. Once that offspring is plunged into public, what they see is strange, I’m sure. It’s different from what they’ve been taught at home, what they’ve experienced at home. Some realize that without difference, there’s no beauty, mystery, and wonder to this gray and exhausting life. Others feel that the people who are different from the way they know are wrong, ugly, and subhuman; a common mindset that intertwines with political and religious groups, just sayin’. This isn’t the truth. I don’t understand how people all over do not comprehend this significant fact of life. If there was one race, one religion, one sexual preference, one way of dress, one mindset, one way of body-type, that would be a truly gray, exhausting, and definitely dreadful life, religious preference set aside. Until the end of the human race, each human will live their lives according to what makes them feel comfortable, accepted, and self-known. Being comfortable, accepted, and self-known has no specific or particular path, because each person has their own path to follow to get them to that point. So, stop hating on people that are different from you in any way, shape or form. We’re all the same.