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“You are not unique.” Has anyone ever told you that? Maybe you’ve heard it from a college advisor, or someone with similar responsibilities? It’s a phrase used to somehow explain that there are so many people like you in this world, that you really need to do some extraordinary to stand out. I’m going to use it for different purposes, to further a point I really want to make.
Guess what, you are unique. Maybe not in terms of your academic achievement, or your sense of style, but definitely as an individual. You have a different shade of eye colour, skin colour and hair colour than pretty much everyone else. You have different characteristic traits and genetic coding than others. These are biological facts here people. So then why hasn’t society accepted that we’re all different by now?
We’ve seen throughout history that certain groups of people are constantly being targeted for various reasons. Some individuals believe that they aren’t meant to be here, that they go against what god wants, or that they are the reason things go wrong on this planet (their beliefs, not mine, BY THE WAY). People are allowed to express their opinions, but are they just in advocating on behalf of general acceptance, but banding against certain people? Why are they trying to corner the human race into becoming one main type of human being. As we’ve seen, that objective wasn’t met for many controversial leaders in the past…
We’re all different, none of us are identical. It’s impossible for us all to be in the same category, so than why try to make that happen? If the universe accepts all of us, then why should some of us be excluded on behalf of technicalities?
I wrote a short story about this in grade four that was chosen to be published in a magazine and online. If I find it, I will post it here, just to show you the point of view of a kid living in these times on this topic!
QUOTE OF THE DAY: “If it brings me to my knees, it’s a bad religion”. It was said by Frank Ocean in his song, “Bad Religion“. What I get from it, is that Frank is trying to say that if he has to beg for forgiveness within a religion, then he considers it to be a bad religion, because it doesn’t accept him for who he is! (explanation of the lyrics found on: http://rapgenius.com/Frank-ocean-bad-religion-lyrics) While this isn’t in direct correlation with the topic at hand, I feel that his music is very analytical and honest about many controversial ideas, and that his music has a genius quality to it.. GO CHECK HIM OUT IF YOU HAVEN’T YET!
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