Day 11 - A picture of something you hate.
i hate
i also have a rant to give
the other day i was talking to a friend from school about what i did over the summer and where i worked. i got used to people asking me "how do you do that?" and saying "woah that's hard." i also got used to telling people that somehow i don't take any of it home with me. its sad but i figured i was working to make others lives better and its sad and some of the stories were hard to hear but somehow i just went on with life. this is something that i will be doing and i need to be able to keep work at work or i will have a breakdown.
one thing i will not for the life of me get used to is when people talk about where i worked and "doing Gods work." i find this rather annoying that people attribute good acts to gods work. i do not do gods work by any means at all. i do things because i believe in equality, equal access to health care, food, shelter and education. i work and will work to make a change because i believe that everyone deserves the same life and opportunity. i would love to rid the world of racism, sexism, classism, ageism, cultural imperialism, ethnocentric tendencies and all the social ills ever. id love to make the world a better place for everyone to live and for people of all cultures, of all sexualities and of all ages to be as productive mentally and physically as they can.
i know with what i want to do, i will get the gods work nonsense often. i know i have to be ready for it but its annoying. why can't i just want to make social change? why can't i just acknowledge social injustices and try to change them with my abilities and my strengths? why is everything about peoples faith. so annoying. and i hate it. i hate that when i actually tell people, if i ever get on the topic, that when i tell them i don't believe in god or in religion, they react as if theres a problem with me.
i will never be 'saved.' i will never see it differently. it doesn't matter that my family isn't strict. it doesn't matter that i went to a catholic school and was totally immersed in catholicness. and no, i am not in the teenage question everything stage. i let you have your own views, now fuck off world.
peace
ray charles
i hate
i also have a rant to give
the other day i was talking to a friend from school about what i did over the summer and where i worked. i got used to people asking me "how do you do that?" and saying "woah that's hard." i also got used to telling people that somehow i don't take any of it home with me. its sad but i figured i was working to make others lives better and its sad and some of the stories were hard to hear but somehow i just went on with life. this is something that i will be doing and i need to be able to keep work at work or i will have a breakdown.
one thing i will not for the life of me get used to is when people talk about where i worked and "doing Gods work." i find this rather annoying that people attribute good acts to gods work. i do not do gods work by any means at all. i do things because i believe in equality, equal access to health care, food, shelter and education. i work and will work to make a change because i believe that everyone deserves the same life and opportunity. i would love to rid the world of racism, sexism, classism, ageism, cultural imperialism, ethnocentric tendencies and all the social ills ever. id love to make the world a better place for everyone to live and for people of all cultures, of all sexualities and of all ages to be as productive mentally and physically as they can.
i know with what i want to do, i will get the gods work nonsense often. i know i have to be ready for it but its annoying. why can't i just want to make social change? why can't i just acknowledge social injustices and try to change them with my abilities and my strengths? why is everything about peoples faith. so annoying. and i hate it. i hate that when i actually tell people, if i ever get on the topic, that when i tell them i don't believe in god or in religion, they react as if theres a problem with me.
i will never be 'saved.' i will never see it differently. it doesn't matter that my family isn't strict. it doesn't matter that i went to a catholic school and was totally immersed in catholicness. and no, i am not in the teenage question everything stage. i let you have your own views, now fuck off world.
peace
ray charles
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