Who are you to tell who we can love?

     This is about the gays, lesbians, bisexuals. They are second class citizens. What's wrong with being gay? Really. Tell me, what is so wrong about being gay? What is so wrong about somebody loving the same sex? Is it really so bad, do these people deserve hate, to the extent where they could take their own lives? That you take away their rights?

     I'm very overwhelmed with these feelings, they are people too, so why treat them like less. They are second class citizens, and if you don't know what a secondhand citizen is; a second class citizen is defined as: a person whose rights and opportunities are treated as less important than those of other people in the same society. Tell me, what good comes out of this? Look at this. 40% of gay males and 39% of lesbians surveyed had either attempted or seriously contemplated suicide. Don't they matter? Think of the adolescences who aren't accepted by their parents, their family. 50% of all gay and lesbian youth report that their parents reject them due to their sexual orientation. 

     Why are people using religion as an excuse to hate on homosexuals? Excuse me? God doesn't hate gays. From what I learned when I was younger, God loves everyone . Why are people making hating sites, and using God's name to defend it. One of them is Love Gods Way. I'm not so very religious, but what they're saying, it just isn't right. 
     
     Nothing is wrong with being gay! Why do you take away their rights? Do you know what it feels like to have a friend always contemplating suicide just because he's a bisexual? Because of hate remarks he gets from people? He's only 13 and he's contemplating suicide. Another thing I hate is that once one sibling is labeled gay, their other siblings will get a bad name for it. You can't make someone stop being gay, they're born that way. Do you really think that they have a choice? Believe me, if I think they had a choice, they would've gone straight to avoid all this hate. 

     Is that what you want? Instead of teaching children how to love everyone for who they are and not to judge people, you're teaching them how to hate on someone for being different? What do you want? I can't take the hate. I know people who accept gays, and those are my group of friends. I don't know how many people at my school accept them, but I know in other places, so many people don't accept them. 

    Why can't they adopt? Isn't it better than the child having no family at all? I'd rather have two dads or two moms than not having a family at all. As long as they love me, that's all they have to do. A parent's job is to love, raise, and teach their child, no? They can provide that love, that help, that knowledge. And I know that if a parent loves their child, straight or gay, they will accept their child's sexual orientation. 

     Nothing is right in this world, not that I see. I'm only 13, and I already hate some of it. People tell me to be glad that I was born in America, that I have all these rights; and they're right. Although, I just can't be happy, I just can't. Why can't i be glad that I was born in America? Because of all this hate, discrimination, and everything else against people who are different. For some reason, I just can't see why I should be glad for being born in a world that has hate in it. I don't understand why people can be so heartless.

What is 'beautiful'?

To me, society/the media is telling us what is beautiful and what isn't. I thought that beauty in the inside, not how you look, but I guess people these days just don't agree. I don't like the way I look, and I have no confidence that nobody will never love me. Part of the reason of this is because society keeps telling us/me what 'beautiful' is. You have to be skinny to be beautiful, you have to be 'perfect'. I know not everybody thinks that, but most people do. I should love myself for who I am, but I just can't. Some models in those bulletin board ads are Photoshopped, even in magazines, and some people just don't know that. Some teen girls would die to look just like them, but in reality, that is unachievable, unless they get plastic surgery or something. My generation can be very judgmental. If you're not skinny, you're not pretty. People judge me, a lot. I've been compared to someone who wears tons of make up every day, and they say that she's the hotter version of me. We're only 13, and I barely know who this girl is. She's 13, and she wears so much make up, and believes that she doesn't look pretty without any. I know people who are underweight, and still say that they're fat. And they say it right in front of me, and sadly for me, I am overweight. To be honest, I don't understand my own generation.
     Most people act and talk like 'whores'. Some girls don't take relationships seriously. My generation can be ignorant, stupid, and heartless sometimes. And something that bothers me is that now people are replacing the word "sad" with "depressed". Sometimes I'll try to joke around to someone (who is relatively happy), not knowing that they're sad, and someone will go up to me and say "Hey! Leave him alone. He's depressed." I don't mean to be rude, but he's just sad, not depressed. Really, I've had friends that go through depression and it just gets annoying when people are replacing sad with depressed. Depression is a mental illness, sadness is just a feeling, don't get them mixed up.
      People don't look at your personality first. People judge you automatically by your looks and then try to get to know your personality. But the second they don't like your looks, they don't get to know you. That's just how reality is. What some people don't realize is that everyone they meet is afraid of something, loves something, and has lost something.
     This is what I hate about our society. To be so pressured to be perfect and then being surprised and disgusted when someone can’t cope with the expectations of this world. To look down on a person when they themselves hurt them so much that there is no other choice but take control in your own way.
     To the people who judge others and keep saying negative things to them. An actual person who literally slices themselves open on a daily basis just to get away from the emotional pain and come back to a physical state. I bet there’s someone you’ve said something rude to that went home and add a another scar to their already beautifully scarred skin. So yes in a literal sense you just made a mark in their life and you are now embedded into their skin forever. When I put it that way makes you think a little huh? It doesn’t take much to be friendly; no matter how much you can’t stand a person. Be kind. Because even though what you think is harmless could be the death of them.