Day after day we find ourselves feeling beaten down, feeling less than we should...all because if someone else. You could've tried harder on that assignment, you could be quieter, you could be less gay or even less black.
Let that sink in.
Today's realization is a good one.
Why is it that we find ourselves being knocked down and having to somehow climb back up by telling ourselves words of encouragement to counter what someone has said? The interesting part about that climb is that we sometimes knock down someone else in the process. It may not always be a direct blow to them. It could be that you laughed while someone made a "joke." Maybe you stood in silence while someone was being ridiculed. Maybe one time you simple has a preconceived thought based on appearances... So my question is why? Why do we allow ourselves to put someone in the exact same dark place we've been before?
Rather than knocking someone down, we should be the ones that attempt (what seems to be) impossible; try to ensure no one ever feels the way someone once made you feel. It's all so silly when you really think about it.
I've previously mentioned a few times that calling someone gay doesn't make you any more straight. Calling someone black doesn't make you any whiter. Telling someone they will go to hell doesn't make it any easier for you to get into heaven.
So why do we do it?
I'm here to say that you are perfect JUST the way you are. Those "imperfections" and "negative qualities" aren't that at all. In fact, they are the one thing that will allow you and I to rise up and fight for what is right. Thank you for being so imperfect.
As long as we are all standing there with our hearts and arms open wide for any and every person, nobody should ever feel less than or alone because we are all here for one common thing: to love.
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