Hello All,
I just watched a CNN segment about a 14 year old boy who took his own life after being bullied in school for being gay. FOURTEEN YEARS OLD. He's barely a man, barely old enough to know what love is, and he, and thousands of other boys, girls, men and women are being abused and persecuted for being attracted to the people they like.
I'm not gay, but I can't stand it when people are ignorant and cruel to people who don't deserve this kind of behavior. That goes for all inexcusable behavior, but being a student in the number one LGBT-friendly college in America has me around the gay population more than most other minorities. All of these news casts and articles about tragedies, brought to light by bullies, literally has me crying for these misunderstood students, friends and children facing all of this adversity. It's not fair to them -what have any one of them done to justify being insulted, assaulted and abused for every single day?
I wish I could do more to support the gay community, but all I can do at this point in my life is write, and love and support my friends in their fight for equal treatment and understanding. I just hope that everyone struggling with these issues knows that they are not alone, and that they can always find support, if not from their friends or family, then from other people who've gone through what they have:
On a lighter note:
I have a business class every tuesday and thursday, and while I greatly respect and admire my professor, I am a little underwhelmed by this class. There's seemingly no order or outline to what happens in class, and I know I'm not learning anything about business other than what Apple Inc is doing or has done or will be doing that has made them one of the number one businesses in the world right now. It's basically a class about Apple and Steve Jobs.
Dumb People:
My school has an incredible variety of extra curricular activities to pursue on campus, and a lot of these are student run. This is great, but there is a downside to that -young people are idiots.
I know, I know, who's the pot, who's the kettle.
But seriously?
My friends and I have a year of experience working on this one particular club, learning different roles and gaining a better understanding of how everything involved in making this whole project successful (no, I will not be saying what ex. curr. this is about), and I, at least expressed enthusiastic interest in becoming more involved and learning even more about how to make the project better, but, like a used and outdated car in the parking spot of some big-shot CEO, I've been replaced by the newer, less vocal and less attitude-prone freshmen.
dumb.
Writing:
Before moving back on campus, I started writing what I think will be this really cool fantasy novel series, but ever since getting back, I haven't been able to motivate myself to add to it much. Then, when I got bored one night and decided to pull out a DVD to watch, I made the mistake of pulling out Funimation and Gonzo's "RomeoxJuliet," and now I can't stop trying to write my R+J story (so cool in my head, I hope it translates as awesomely onto the page).
Finally:
Being a girl really sucks sometimes, just ask Viola, from Shakespeare's "Twelfth Night." Not only did she have to dress up and act like a guy and work for the dude she was in love with, she had to pretend to not be in love with him AND fight off affections from the chick that Viola's boss was in love with. (We're reading that in another class of mine, so it's on my mind a little bit.)
My life isn't exactly as crazy as that right now, but i fear this ugly blemish on my face will permanently scar me for the rest of my life, resulting in terribly insulting names, not being able to face all of my prettier friends, and never fulfilling my dream of being an international super spy.
Okay, so maybe the insulting names part was a little over dramatic, but still! Why do we have to deal with hormones and acne and other bad biology crap when we really don't need it? It's super distracting from what I'd rather be doing (aka: being a vain b**ch and staring at myself in the mirror.)
Well that's all for now, sorry this one was a little whiney.
Thanks for reading,
Amy Liz
