I left work a little early today because
we have some sick kids who need to see the doctor and the doctor doesn't have
many appointments open today. So we gotta get them in when we can.
While I was driving, I realized that
people are talking about the Charleston shooting all over the place, but I
don't think we mentioned it at all. Then I started thinking about the struggle
we have always had with tragic events like this. What's the right way to handle
it?
You see #CharlestonShooting everywhere.
It would be our obligation to give details if we were there in Charleston at
the time of the shooting and we could help find the suspect. We weren't,
though.
It's no secret that everyone on the show
is just as vulnerable to emotion as anyone else. We're human! None of us
encourage hate or tolerate discrimination. If anything it's looked down on if
there's someone who tries to present them self as better than another person.
We all pee in the same toilet, honey. Deal with it.
With that in mind, isn't it mind blowing
that it's 2015 and we live in a society that is still stupid enough to hate? At
this point it's beyond ignorance because ignorance can be changed through
knowledge. People can steal and ruin your identity through information stored
in a cloud with that acquired knowledge, but a group of people can't go to
church and worship their God because someone is just stupid.
Hate is not a mental illness. It is
closed mindedness and the inability to coexist with people different than you.
Scary because a world full of "you" is a world full of hate. That's
hell on earth.
I think it was yesterday I posted that I
hope stupidity isn't genetic. I truly do. I also hope that kids today have the
strength of character to make their own judgments and decisions about right and
wrong. I'm willing to admit that I'm flawed and that if I gave birth, I would
hope that my OCD tendencies didn't get passed along. Same with my A.D.D. I'm
sure there's more, but we can start with those two.
If you spend 18 years of your child's life
only taking left hand turns, how is your kid going to know about right turns?
How are they gonna know that if you miss a turn, sometimes blocking around to
the right is a smarter way to get back where you're going? It makes no sense to
be so rigid and closed to the idea of even considering the idea of going right
instead of left. Pointless.
I saw a Tylenol commercial the other
night that said its not WHO you love, it's HOW you love. These words cut right
to the heart of so much that is wrong with the world today. Some would say I'm
supposed to walk the earth alone instead of love another person of the same
sex. Some would say I'm disgusting and have no morals. Why? I don't know. I'd
say that these people should look in the mirror and consider their own actions
for half a second. Im pretty sure that your God that you preach so loudly says
not to judge, so perhaps you should google the word hypocrite. It will teach
you some things.
I'm not so naive that I think that
everyone in the world should hold hands and be best friends. Believe me. I
would rather put needles in my eyeballs than be stuck in a room with some
people. I don't sit around and preach contempt, though. That's unfair. Nor
would I ever physically harm another person because of our differences. I may
want to punch someone in the throat occasionally, but I wouldn't do it. It's
not my place or your place or anyone else's place to tell another person who to
be, who to love, what to think, or how to live. If you do choose to teach hate,
I hope you do it on your way to build your glass house. We should all be able
to look in on the life of a saint anytime we want.
