I had always dreamed of changing the world, but the more I see the world, the more stupid I feel.
You can try to bring change if you live in a sponge that absorbs alterations and advancements, but when you increasingly feel you are banging your head against a rock, it becomes almost impossible to retain even your own little sanity.
Ideals find it hard to exist in the 'real' world. But then the 'real' world is nothing but what we, as a collective have decided on, depending on our conveniences and comfort levels. How hard could it be to open one single shaft ? How hard is to keep your windows shut if you want but not lock up others' doors?
It is easy to ask for changes in the law, but it is really not the law only that has to change. Granted that it is of course very reassuring to know that you will have legal protection and can fight openly for justice in a court of law which will have your side and not consider you an outcast, but it is a whole different ball game to not have your neighbors talk to you as you step out or have your family members increasingly decrease their calls and concerns or you fear public assaults wherever you go.
Makes you question everything about civilization, what do we expect of ourselves?
What are we expecting of others? What are we expecting to achieve as a human race if we cannot acknowledge a fellow human?
Actually this feels quite funny; you could empathize with an actual problem and go about trying to solve it, but people turning against people for who they are (or who they are not) is kind of silly. Lets make our intentions clear at least, are we staging a satire or a comedy or just absurd narratives gone wrong which is made obvious to everyone so that no one kills themselves?
Maybe we actually don't in fact need any 'change'. Collective evolution is a myth; we can't have universal empathy if there is individual apathy. We need individual logic, individual reasoning.
All we need more than anything right now, when things are seeming so bright but are carpeting a layer of disgusting muck, is just one simple mantra - Live and let live.
Positive changes (or whatever that means to anyone) will automatically follow.
RIP to all the victims of homophobia around the world...
