I know I sound like a hypocrite. God love me, there are days when I’m pretty sure that God gave me the temper of a mongoose. I get angry, I get frustrated, and I have been known to flat out lose my cool. I don’t put up with much, and I know I need to learn patience.

Sadly, there have been times I’ve been mean. I’ve said hurtful things that I’ve wished a thousand times over that I could take back. I’ve hurt people’s feelings, I’ve made people angry, and I don’t always do or say the right thing, but I’m here to tell you that there is no excuse for some of the cruelty I’ve been seeing lately.

Maybe I’m just naive. Maybe it was just that I grew up in a tiny town, without much diversity, and I just have never been forced to open my eyes and take a look at the world around me. One thing I can tell you is that when I see our world, I don’t see it’s demise, and I certainly don’t look at people who are different then me and blame them for the world’s problems. The downfall of society is not in diversity, and today, I am sick to death of the hatred I have seen on people’s faces.

I don’t really care what color you are, if you like boys or girls or both, if you are Christian, Buddhist, Muslim, or anything else for that matter. My job on Earth is not to “set you straight,” or convince you that you are wrong. I certainly have no authority to announce your damnation, or to let you know that you have a ticket for the first handbasket straight to Hell.

I think if a few people really pulled their head out of their keesters, they’d realize that it’s probably not their job either. Furthermore, it is NO ONE’S job to spread hatred, to taunt, badger or abuse those who chose differently then you do. Save your judgement, save yourself some frown lines, and check yourself before you wreck not only yourself, but also the lives of those who are just living how they see fit.

You don’t have to like it. That’s your freedom as much as their choices are their freedom, and last time I checked, you don’t see any of those you don’t like protesting your “conventional” choices.

This is not a message to support anything but love for one another. Maybe I’m the product of my gypsy raising, but I make my own choices, and others make theirs. That’s how the world works. Stop being a road block, and learn to be a stepping stone to help others along their path. For all you know, it could be leading the same place as your own path, and you were simply too ignorant, judgmental, and short-sighted to see it, or to realize that you might someday need them to return the favor.

For all you people out there who feel it is right and just for you to spread hatred, cause emotional and physical harm to others who are different, and are just downright mean, I sincerely hope with all my heart that someday, someone is kind enough to you to get your attention.

You don’t deserve it, but I’d like to think that one day someone shows you enough love for you to look around and recognize that love is a far better way to live.

This I suppose should have come on Monday, but it didn’t, because I’ve been busy, and I’m only sort of sorry.