As you will soon learn, I enjoy going on rants that are excessively long and detailed... I have very detailed opinions... I think I should join the debate team, but I might end up taking too much time since I have so much to say and start boring people...
I personally think that people these days are simply too controlling and sensitive... Nobody can let anything go anymore, and nobody can agree without some drama. Honestly, people need to learn to let things go and open their minds just the SMALLEST bit sometimes...
Nobody can let what they think go silent for five seconds, you know?
There's a difference between voicing your opinion, and shoving your beliefs down everyone's throats, therefore condemning everyone that doesn't share your opinion to burning in hell for the rest of their days (which leads to yet ANOTHER battle of beliefs that religion goes into).
People get overexcited with beliefs and automatically assume that anyone that thinks different than them is wrong and sick...
And apparantly doing that is really normal for people, which I don't understand at all, since my parents raised me to be open-minded and accepting. My parents even let me choose what religion what I wanted to be when I was very young, and are open to letting me change to whatever religion I want to now. They have always told me that they would support me all the way. They are open to me being gay or lesbian as well. They teach me what is needed to be taught, like life skills for surviving in this world and their own beliefs, but my leash is pretty much gone. They taught me anything I asked them about, rather than telling me to wait until I was old enough to know. They treat me as an adult. I am free to choose what I believe and want.
I have received a lot of benefits from this upbringing, I'll tell you now. A lot of people (trolls, I am WATCHING YOU!
) will say my parents are hippies. Frankly, I think they are too. But look at me now; I'm a thirteen year old straight A student (I haven't even gotten an A- yet!) who can speak more than one language, got the highest ISTEP scores in my school for Science and Language Arts, plans to be an author, and has been dubbed the one person to go to when you've got problems at my school by my peers. I matured faster mentally than my peers, and slid into puberty and resonsibility better than anyone I know. And no one helped me with any of it. I've gotten to where I am now with only my parents' support and assurance. "Mommy" didn't come in and volunteer for everything the school had to offer and help me with my homework every night.
That's why I always found it weird when I made friends with kids with conservative parents who didn't know anything about the world; they were always incredibly sheltered. I even have a friend (my age) who didn't know about 9/11 until I told her last year, because her parents and family didn't let her hear any of it. (She told me that she wanted to throw a party on September eleventh, and I told her that was crazy. She didn't even know why.)
Everyone around me either learned about life from friends their age, who often got the facts wrong, or the internet. It was completely foreign to me, since I learned about life from my parents, who respected me enough to treat me as an adult.
But that's how everyone in the world is. Information is miscommunicated and can lead to trouble. Its especially hard when the people you learn it from are immature and treat everything as stereotypes.
Rather than teaching me what the world accepted for me to do, my parents taught me to accept myself and go with what I choose.
I think this worked out because I went through the selfish stage rather quickly and early (whereas almost everyone I know still thinks about themselves all the time), and reached a mature mindset early.
The downside: I don't exactly belong to the party everyone in the world but me went to.
(I.e.,) I don't like what everyone else likes. I over-analyze everything. I often feel as if I don't belong, since everyone else thinks so differently than I do.
I don't "do" going over to each other's houses. I do not know why everyone is so intent on that. I am perfectly fine entertaining myself all summer and every fifteen hour road trip my father insists on going on. Therefore, I can't entertain company. Why can't everyone just entertain themselves?
I'll never know.
Think about it; who else condemned people for their beliefs?
Adolf Hitler, Osama bin Laden, etc...
Anything that's different. Pfft. Gone.
I know a lot of people who hate the Japanese because, quote, "they're buddists and will go to Hell becuase they don't believe in God," unquote.
Did you ever think that they think the same thing about you?
Everyone's point of view is the same. "My way is right. Anyone who opposes me must be punished."
Kiss and make up already! No one wants to be the bigger person, and what has happened because of that? Billions of innocent people that didn't do anything wrong: poof.
And guess what? Most of you reading this will dismiss me as a peace loving hippie who smokes meth and then gets these "realizations about life, maaaaaaa~n." No. I swear, if people actually listened to this, there'd be a lot less crap in this world, that's for sure.
I'm not saying I'm perfect, or my family's perfect. Hell, my family's pretty damn messed up the moment.
But we're moving along. We're listening to each other. And we're progressing back to normal. Rather than sticking up our noses at each other and splitting up the family, we're piecing it together.
Don't you think that we could all start doing that?
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Wow. That felt good to get out.