Real Diversity

Diversity...a word that stands for such a wide chasm of difference. We are all so different, yet so much the same. Lambs following each other to the wolfs' den. We do what Society tells us to do without question and without demands. We live according to rules that have been passed down from a generation that we have no proof even existed. Family lines and governmental trees, they all blur in the face of individuality. We work to live so we can live to work. Hypocrisy runs so deep through the veins of humanity.

It never ceases to amaze me how we are all run by a government that prides itself on freedom, yet the moment you make a decision for yourself...be it a lover, a friend, a religion...you are doomed to fall into the cracks that we all walk over. Mind you, I don't think for a moment it's set up that way, but I do believe it could be changed if we put our minds to it and if we put our faith in each other rather than some invisible force that claims to know what's best for us. How do they know? How can they choose who is accepted and who's not? How do they know that what's right for me is what's right for you? If that were true, poverty would be at a stand still and there would be no justice for hate crime criminals. Murderers would be shot, rapists would be maimed and those who sell drugs to children would be lost.

Diversity: a five-dollar word for an endless amount of possibilities. We have freedom of religion...as long we don't stray too far outside of some "church" or other. We have freedom to love, as long we don't walk far from the line of heterosexuality the way the Bible describes it. We have the right to bear arms, as long as we give the government life-long access into our lives. For those of us who stray too far, we have to deal face-to-face with the prejudices that come so quickly from most people. Societal norms? Says who? We act the way we do because we are told we need to do so...but where did the original rules come from? Can we prove it?

A world of diversity should mean a world ready to accept difference, a world ready to live in tolerance, a world ready to open its' arms wide and embrace us all.

Until next time,
Chaos