Choices. We're all given them.
So what happens when you make a personal choice that affects only you, and people STILL find a way to induce conflict?
Every year, apparently the staff holds an end-of-summer appreciation dinner for everyone. Some people were talking about the menu and what food would be ordered - chicken, spaghetti and salad.
Someone questioned why the pasta wouldn't have meat in it. (Perfectly acceptable question, might I add). The guy in charge of planning the event said, "Well we're ordering chicken and other things, so we need to have a dish that caters to vegetarians."
The first guy then goes on a rant about how that's stupid and how it's our own problem if people choose to be vegetarians and they should find their own means of food for this community-serving dinner.
I vouched for the menu, which caused him to ask if I was a vegetarian. Upon finding out that I am, he began to make side comments in disapproval. He kept questioning why I am one and responding with the word, "No."
And if that wasn't enough, a few minutes later, he then sits next to me and begins talking (unnecessarily loud) about how much he loves veal proclaiming, "I absolutely love killing baby cows! Veal has absolutely no fat on it because the babies are too young to produce it when they are murdered. Yup. I love it. Love it. Love it."
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And you know what? This is absolute crap.
I don't care if you don't agree with everything I do. I accept that people are different. I love individualism and non-conformity. And it makes me sick that people actually feel they have the right to judge you based on things that only pertain to you.
I don't throw my beliefs on anyone. You can eat a whole rack of ribs in front of me and it would not make me think any differently. You can believe in one God, 10 gods or no God, and I will still love you for the person that you are.
And you know another thing?
People have so many problems with pro-anything groups because they think they cause conflict and hinder freedom. But then these people have absolutely no problem getting in your face and stereotyping you when they find out one detail about your life like what you don't eat, if you go to church or what your favorite genre of music is.
Basically, they hate when you throw beliefs in their faces, but still pick on you when even if you don't.
I say, stop the bullshit. Stop trying to classify everyone based on what stats or history say. And just get to know me for who I am, not what you assume I am based on an idea you have about a certain type of person.
Be who you are and love who you are.
And don't let anyone try and make you question that.
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