A person is a person

So today in my english class 2 things happened. At the beginning of class, our teacher decided she wanted us a learn a little about perspective, so we all had to find a new spot in class to sit (at least 5 seats away from where we currently were sitting) and had to sit by someone we had never sat by in class before. Now considering my last couple of weeks, this change was not a huge deal to me, and I decided to take it a little farther and go dead poets on her. I moved across the classroom, up a few rows and sat on the table. Best part, she thought it was great. So i got to sit on the table the entire class. I also happened to find the heater right by it, which is where i ended up resting my feet. life was warm. :)

I don't know why i love sitting on tables, but I always have. Maybe because i don't usually reach the floor very well in chairs, i don't know. So my backpack sat on the chair and I sat on the table.

Then we got into our class discussion about the reading. And a lot of it came back to prejudices and accepting people ad stuff like that. The moral of class today was perspective.

That is something I feel a lot of people lack, which is so sad. There is such an amazing power behind perspective. But people I think are afraid to remember that people are people. No matter what else.

It makes me sad how judgmental people can be. And i'm sorry, but mormons are some of the worst offenders. They feel like even looking at something form a perspective other than what they believe means that they are accepting it. Which is not true. I mean honestly, look at some of our beliefs. Don't misunderstand, I believe in my faith with everything in me. It is my salvation, it is what keeps me sane. It is what brings me peace. But I've been able to look at it from other peoples eyes and I can see why people think we are strange. We have some very weird beliefs. Not that they are hurting anyone, intentionally at least. But that is exactly the same for other religions. I think Jews have some very interesting beliefs, but they can be some of the nicest people you've ever met.

perspective.

Why do people have to judge? Why does it matter what someone is? I don't care if you are gay, straight, black, white, purple, Jewish, Catholic, a slow runner, a fast reader, a mechanic, a teacher, a doctor, whatever. The point is we are all people, and we deserve to be treated as such.

Now, bringing my faith into it. Even more than we are all people, we are all Children of God. So why should it matter?

Here is the other weird part of life, if you love people, you don't treat them the same. I know that sounds so backwards, but honestly, I am so grateful my parents didn't treat me and my sister the same. She always had a curfew, she sometimes had issues keeping it, but if she didn't have one who knows what time of day she would have come home. Me on the other hand, i never had a curfew. I didn't need one, I got myself home at a reasonable time. If I was going to be later than usual, I called and told my mom.

Basically, i know this isn't one of my more eloquent and well thought out entries, but it's whats on my mind. One thing I've learned in life is that people are all the same. We have the same needs. We need food, water, shelter. Above everything else, we need love.

Once we learn how we are all the same, we can understand how we are all different. And that is when we can start learning how to love each other. That is when the fear will leave. Cause thats usually what it boils down to.

And one more thing I've learned. Pure love will always cast out fear.