Bubbles.

I like to think that I'm accepting of all people, no matter what their race, religion, gender or orientation of any kind, but I'm not. Not really. None of us are. I don't think anyone can truly be accepting of everyone in the world. I've never met a person who doesn't have prejudices, no matter how small.

Whoever doesn't fit into our idea of 'acceptable' is written off. Sure, we like to think that we're trying to be apathetic or empathetic...any type of 'etic' really. But, can someone truly be apathetic and empathetic towards someone whose views we don't share without being condescending? 'Well, good for him, for thinking that if he doesn't eat this/goes to that church on that day/says those words, then he's going to have a happy life/get everything he wants/appease his God/go to heaven' insert appropriate line hear.

We want those who don't fit into our idea of an 'accepting world' to hop on board and ride with us, come to our side, our way of thinking and be accepting, just like us. Do we not realise that they want us to do exactly the same thing?! That it's contradictory?

"Come on, be accepting of other cultures, we're not accepting of yours, but that's not the point, LOVE THE OTHER PEOPLE!" 

The extremists, the religious, the straight, gay, the agnostics, the athiests, the right wing, left wing, whatever...it doesn't matter what their views are, but we've all got our own little bubbles and we slot things into 'right and 'wrong'.

What's right to someone, what's normal and average is extreme to someone else.

I'm accepting of most things out there....that I know about anyway. The older I get, the more I realise I'm so naive when it comes to the world...but I'm going off on a tangent here...I don't really see any reason not to try and put yourself in other people's shoes and see the world through their eyes. But it's not easy. Unless you immerse yourself in who that person is, why they think and feel the way that they do and realise that, yes, humans are similar in many ways, but we're all so different at the same time.

In the end, we all want the same types of things. Love. Money. Hope. Family. Unity. Happiness. Security. Peace. Life. Heaven.

Those words are so easy to write, to say, to pine over and strive for but very few people get half of these things, let alone all of them. And as for the last one...who knows, but that's a whole different topic.

We all follow different paths to get the things we all want, just depending on how you look at things, what bubbles you slot your actions and beliefs into.

That's what makes us human I guess. The choice to live the way we want, and fuck the rest of them and what the deem 'right' and 'wrong'