Back With The Birds

Hey, it's been awhile. Yeah, sorry. I've been very busy with other things like school and relationships. Actually, I forgot how to log in. Oops! Well, whatever because I was actually thinking a lot about issues that relate to me such as what's going on in our school and how we can bring forth tolerance in our community. As always, our art teacher was way ahead of me and assigned us a tolerance card as a sketchbook project. We were supposed to use our drawing abilities to portray a tolerant message that could be used in a positive way. After us, the other classes were asked to do the same thing. So hopefully that'll get around.
So lately I've been walking home with this guy(only like 2 times actually). He's nice enough, but then he starts talking. About God. Now, don't get me wrong, I respect the beliefs and opinions of others, I just don't like it when someone keeps talking about how Jesus loves me. Would you get annoyed? Anyway, this day when we were walking, he(or maybe it was me, I don't know)brought up the topic of gay marriage. He said that he had heard that gay people weren't happy, being married or otherwise. You can probably guess that I was less-than-pleased with the statement. I told him that I had several friends who were a part of the LGBT community. I wanted to say more, but he would never have talked to me again. When I got home, I posted a message on a popular chat site. The message was rather blatant. It had a few statistics about heterosexual divorce and how common it is. Then I wrote some of the ways kids of divorced parents feel. [Side note: I can do this because I am one of those kids!] I really hope I got my message across, as the art teacher hopes her tolerance message does. I think of it like this: The people who are outcast from society, ridiculed and/or different are the birds in the cage. The cage itself is the trap of intolerance and the pain and loneliness it brings to its victims. Tolerance is the key. So if we use that key, there are many more free birds. :)