Thoughts to Think About

Imagine it, if we were all the same, thought the same, felt the same, believed the same. Where would we begin? Where would we end? That’s not a world we want. We embrace our differences and our options, don’t we?

I find us to be complete contradictions when we can stand in front of a room and proclaim that we embrace our options yet, by the same token, we can chastise those who do not embrace the same options that we do. Why have choice if you can’t choose? Why do we give options but take away the right to choose from them? Aren’t we only confusing the freedoms that we so sure that we have? We are stuck in this vicious cycle with ourselves. We say that everyone has the right to express themselves through choice yet we judge and degrade those who do not choose the same as we do? Is there that much of a difference in having the choice and choosing it? By it being a choice doesn’t that make it right and just in its own self?

There is so much background that we don’t know. There is more to the story than what we see on face value. Yet we judge and label people because of one action. We see people as walking structures and not as humans. We don’t give people time to justify or explain. But then again, why should they have to?

Would the world be a perfect place if we could embrace difference? Is it possible that we could? If a society existed that actually embraced difference would we be any different from each other after all? Where do we start to acknowledge our difference and accept it as only a difference and not a basis for judgment and prejudice? Can we look on others who are making decisions different from our own and conceptualize that they are entitled to their experience as long as it works for them?

Why do we feel the need to identify through common practice and exclude those who don’t follow? Why do we feel we have the right to judge others for things we have no intelligence of? Why do we feel that we can disown and degrade others based on rights that we all agree are our own to make?

The human race is a contradiction within itself. We say one thing and do another. We make laws about one thing but make it impossible to uphold the law. Freedom of speech but we can’t express how we feel about our president without being chastised for being anti-American. Separation of church and state yet we have a president that feels he can decide if people of the same sex can or can’t get married based on his religious convictions. It’s a wonder that we can all function ‘normally’ with all of these contradictions being shoved in our faces.