We are the same and different too
What a terrifying
existence it must have been to be different, where what some term alternative
is your normal. It is not that you cannot function in society; you can with
aptitude, intellect, talent, resourcefulness, gifts, and much else. As a human being, you have a lot to
contribute to your community and to society. Yet, because of who you are there
may be trouble ahead.
The discovery that
your attraction to the similar than that the opposite sometimes comes rather
early in life. You work hard inside yourself struggling and outside yourself
seeking solutions to problems you think you have. Deprivation and ritual,
adjustment and reconditioning, maybe an exorcism or conversion therapy might
help. Guilt is the default for finding expression to your feelings that you
never grow fully into who you are.
The struggle of
accepting oneself
Then, there is the
fear, the fear of revealing who you truly are, the fear of exposure about what
your feelings are, the fear of rejection and ostracism from those of your blood
who learn of what you are, and the fear of interventions imposed to radically
change you into something you are not. For tradition has interpreted and
translated events of antiquity wrongly and from that legal sanction has been
created to criminalise your nature, that is a discussion for another time.
This is the
encapsulation of sexuality conflict, where your normal is considered abnormal
even to the more conservative an abomination. What is an abomination when even in
its rarity nature accommodates difference, diversity, divergence, evolution,
individuality and apparent abnormality? That is usually a matter of perspective
and opinion rather than what some might term unnatural.
Can you accommodate
what nature does?
What exists in nature
is natural and that should be the end of the discussion. Whether your mind is
open to new knowledge and the appreciation of how nature allows rather than
abhors is another thing, but you cannot blame nature for how nature decides to
express itself in ways misunderstood, radical, and let us allow chimerical. That
becomes part of the human experience whether you choose to believe your eyes,
your ears, or your existence where that situation presents.
Indeed, we are afraid
of what is unfamiliar, we might even label things in ways to differentiate
because those things are beyond our frame of reference. Learning new things is
part of the progressive human existence. Sometimes, the things we have to
accept are probably too close for comfort that you decide to afflict the
subject.
Even humanity evolves
to a point where understanding nature will afflict the comfortable and comfort
the afflicted. It is what it is, different characteristics and attractions
within human beings does not make them any less human. Most people do not need
a cure for who they really are, the acceptance of that piece of wisdom is harmony
and peace to our humanity.
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