Closed mindedness!

Closed mindedness. 

Wake up people! Yours isn't the only right way, thought, belief, look, plan, and etc. You get my drift. 

Tonight I watched a show about the KKK and it disgusted, and sickened me. SERIOUSLY! What small minded Mississippi idiot decided to come up with an organization based entirely on hating/harming/killing folks because they were born a different shade of human than they were?! 

Who the hell do people think they are?! We're all made up of the same stuff. Same genetic make up. What makes any one person on this earth think that they are "better" than another based on ANYTHING, much less, their color?!?! 

Small minded ignorance. 

We think that if we turn the channel on the television, it doesn't exist. No, it's still real. It's still happening, and human beings are going through awful things all throughout the world. 

Children are born, and dying within minutes of birth from disease. There are countries where a common child's play area, is filled with human waste, nevermind the constant issue of starvation, lack of medical attention and etc. 

South Korea, oh South Korea. What's our stance? Ehh, we aren't "responsible" for them. THE HELL WE'RE NOT! They are humans just like we are, and regardless of who is Allies with who, or what the rules say, we have a duty to stand up for other human beings. Period. 

All the while, church groups run around seeking recognition for feeding the homeless in St. Louis. Excuse me, if I see that as a bit of a slap in the face of humanity. 

Please, don't ever let yourself become so closed minded, as to believe that if you turn the channel, the problem disappears. It doesn't. You've just turned a blind eye to it. 

Religion is more often used as an excuse for hatred than it ever has been for the love of good. 

The bible calls us to love our brothers and sisters, regardless. Remember that, always. 

Who are you to HATE someone for their sexual preferences? You don't have to like it, or agree, but you DO have to love them anyway. 

BE OPEN MINDED! 

Just because some of us live in a small town atmosphere doesn't mean that we have to subscribe to small town closed mindedness. We don't have to name drop on Facebook every time someone we all know gets caught with, or doing whatever. 

Raising a family isn't the only way to have a life or leave a legacy. 

Traveling around the world, isn't either. 

I'm not saying we all have to agree and live forced to agree with each other. 

Please, though: Sit down, get off your cloud of judgement, take your blinders off and for the love of humanity... BE OPEN MINDED!

Toodles! 

Love, Steph

You just don't hear it!

So I thought I had it all

I thought I had found the one 

And then like all the others

The fighting has just begun

The words cut like a knife

My heart bleeds from the sting

And alone am I here 

Even when I'm wearing your ring

How can you say those things

You don't see the bleeding?

You seem to lack concern

Which is the first step to your leaving

I sit here in silence

But my heart speaks so loud

Only to deaf ears

For anger becomes your cloud

I want to reach out

But my fears keep me still

I want to try to fix this

But I can't climb that hill 

I'm tired my love

Exhausted in my spirit

And I lift my voice once again 

But you just don't hear it...

Just a season, a vapor if you will...

I mistook your weakness for strength, and now the fog has cleared. 

I stood staring at you blankly, just like you've always feared 

My chains are gone, for the very thing that bound me, has finally been unwrapped from around me 

I'll leave only these words behind, for they are all that were real - your broken truths as you pretended to act on what you didn't feel. 

I suppose you were just a season, a vapor if you will, for I'm alive and well today,  love the girl you tried to kill.