Today I've learnt that I live in a pretty judgemental family and I have many judgemental friends.
I hear criticism being thrown all over the place at people we dont even know. Is that really the way we wanna live our lifes? Pointing out flaws in other people that we ourselves probably have as well. Telling other people what to do with their lives while we push aside what we're supposed to do with ours. Again I ask, who are we to judge the ones who have yet to be judged by God. Tsk.
I was talking to Daniel Ang a few nights back and he didnt understand when I told him his views were already tainted before even understanding them. That he was using his own terms of right and wrong to judge other people. He didnt understand. Its pretty simple. Yes, we are all allowed to create our own right and wrong but people should understand these justifications are to keep ourselves in check. We shouldn't be using our own set of right and wrong on other people who have different lifestyles from us. Okay, so the topic we were on was about gays. He said that most of them were experimenting. I got pretty pissed off when he said that. Its so obvious he's using his own judgements and he said he has friends who are gays and after understanding them, they're not doing anything good for themselves. This pissed me off further. How can he say such a thing when he's never felt what they've felt? When he's never experienced what they've experienced? How can he clamp his very own jurisdictions on people from a completely different walk of life from him? That's why I tried explainging to him that his views were tainted. That he wasn't understanding them with a clean slate. He has already judged them before even trying to understand them.
I wouldn't say I'm pro-gay or anti gay. But what I believe is that its their choice and if I expect people to respect my choices in life, I'd expect myself to respect their choices too. I'm not saying its right or wrong. All I'm saying is that its they're life. If they're experimenting, let them because it wouldn't be a problem if it were a heterosexual couple we're talking about would it?
Who are we to decide if what someone else decides is right or wrong. Whoever stated that heterosexuals are superior and homosexuals and inferior? When was it out right to push minorities to the back and take the front seats? When was it our place to cast our fatal clutches of judgement on other people? When did the world become so unaccepting of one another?
All around me are familiar faces Worn out places, worn out faces Bright and early for their daily races Going nowhere, going nowhere And their tears are filling up their glasses No expression, no expression Hide my head I want to drown my sorrow No tomorrow, no tomorrow And I find it kind of funny I find it kind of sad The dreams in which I'm dying Are the best I've ever had I find it hard to tell you 'Cos I find it hard to take When people run in circles It's a very, very Mad World Children waiting for the day they feel good Happy Birthday, Happy Birthday Made to feel the way that every child should Sit and listen, sit and listen Went to school and I was very nervous No one knew me, no one knew me Hello teacher tell me what's my lesson Look right through me, look right through me