Free to be You and Me...part deux.

as a way to wrap up what I had to say earlier...
i heard this song this evening that i thought it might be important to for us to take a good look at the words and soak them in.

they are not my words nor would i ever claim them to be they are words that should resonate in all of us everyday. 

its important to remember that we are only people all made from the same thing and when we knock someone down based on the color of their skin, their sex, their religion, their beliefs, their disabilities, their socioeconmonic status, their sexual preferences we are knocking down a brother or sister in humanity.  we know nothing of their story of their hardships and troubles or loves and hobbies.  we are more alike than we realize - we are human and made from the same things.

so please take with you these words...

imagine there's no heaven

it's easy if you try
no hell below us
above us only sky
imagine all the people
living for today...


imagine there's no countries
it isn't hard to do
nothing to kill or die for
and no religion too
imagine all the people
living life in peace...


you may say I'm a dreamer
but I'm not the only one
i hope someday you'll join us
and the world will be as one

imagine no possessions
i wonder if you can
no need for greed or hunger
a brotherhood of man
imagine all the people
sharing all the world...


you may say I'm a dreamer
but I'm not the only one
i hope someday you'll join us
and the world will live as one

-john lennon


with these words in my heart i will never stop fighting for equality.
happy reading.

free to be you and me

so recently i have had an experience that has rocked me to my core...
and i am thankful for the strength in which i possess in myself and my beliefs.


in light of recent events that have happened in our communities...
the one that surrounds us directly and then the human community in which we live.
it is the issue of human rights...


i feel the need to stand up for humans of all shapes, colors, sex, and sexual preference.
it hurts my soul that we as people feel the right to take away certain civil liberties from others because we simply don't agree.


sadly enough this experience came from facebook...oh how silly this may sound to some but it was something that truly stunned my core.


on national coming out day, i chose to lend my status as a platform for support by offering up my suuport and love in the freedom for those who have felt afraid to do so until now...to come out.  in a safe place.  the way the world should be.


and maybe i am jaded in believing that i should be able to offer support without others opening their mouths or in this case unleashing their fingers and assulting a simple message of love and support.


personally i see people saw things on facebook or other public forums, and these are people that i care about, i might have a difference in beliefs or values, but none the less, i make the choice to keep my mouth shut and not be a contributor to the problem.  this is one thing that i pride myself one, i do not and never will choose my friends or leave my friends because our beliefs differ.  i love them all dearly and i respect their opinions, that is part of what makes them human, however even if i disagree with them i don't find it necessary to engage in a belief war...  this however was what happened to my "status."


a friend of mine, who i love dearly and i will not name names because that is only fair.  please do not misunderstand me readers...i have nothing but love and respect for the person involved in this "war" shall you.


this friend of mine took a message meant from a place of love and support and took their opinions and broke it.  in words that were beyond hurtful, especially under the circumstances.  it was not a place that opinions were to be uttered.  this friend of mine thought that we had the same beliefs and values of non-hatred and equality, which after all that happened was very apparently not true.


this friends words were so offensive, that other friends of mine stood up to say that the person in questions was out of line and beyond inappropriate...


i cannot express the hurt that was caused by these words.
as i write this though i must remember all though i was hurt by the words that were uttered by this friend of mine...
i must forgive.
and move on.
all i can ask is that before we open our mouths and tempt to play with fire...remember you will get burned.
there is also a time and place for everything and although we might not agree with they way that others feel and believe...we need not say everything we think.
bite your tongue.
and count your blessings.


happy reading.