Lets see if this makes sense

 

                I was born and raised Christian. It has been engrained in me, and it’s how I think. I feel guilty that I haven’t gone to church in a long time. I miss the community that I grew up with. It used to be the only real social interaction that I had outside of school.

                Church was never a choice for me, it was on the same level as school. It wasn’t fun but it was important to learn. I hated school, but tolerated church. I’m still trying to figure out why that is. Could have been that it was one day a week rather than five. Maybe it was because it was something we did as a family vs something done as an individual. Maybe it was that the Sunday School teachers weren’t teachers, but just part of the community trying to teach.

                I lived a sheltered life, rarely if ever met someone from a different background as myself. Meeting new people was and is still an incredible challenge. Meeting new people is just simply a skill I don’t possess. Because of this I have learned to treat anyone new with respect. While I’m scared of everyone, I’ve also begun to accept that all new people are friends until they prove otherwise.

                Now, I look back at how I was raised and the community I was raised within, it was supposed to be a loving and understanding community. God is supposed to be a caring deity. We’re supposed to love our neighbor and give to the larger community. We can all come together and do the right thing and make people feel better, make them feel comfortable as they go through the end.

                My point through all of this that I was brought up to care about people. I was raised to put others ahead of myself. People who look different than me deserve the same privileges I do. People who don’t associate with what they were assigned deserve the same privileges.

                Why do so many people quickly revoke the rights of others? Why do they even care? Who harmed you that you need to judge how someone else lives their lives?

                People are who they are, and they will present themselves that way. You will make friends with them based on who they are and how honest they are. Without honesty there is nothing.

                If we could all just understand that we could come a long way. We are all in this world together, we inhabit the same world and live with the same circumstances. Why do we care what you look like? Why do we care the shade of your skin? Life on earth depends on all of us.