Bonds

Today I am going to write about spiritual connections with other human beings. The only reason is because, like the last two posts, I have been thinking about this topic. Recently I have noticed that or feel as if one of my friends and I have a spiritual bond. Not like any other friend that I have had, this one felt different. I met him officially in the beginning of this year, my grade 11 year of high school, I can’t really explain it. I first saw him the first day of school and I was drawn to him. It’s kind of weird, for lack of a better explanation.  I now I think that is why I wanted to get to know him in grade 10.

            This feeling of being connected in a way confused me. Now if he was a girl it wouldn’t because I’m straight, but for a while I took this feeling as a crush.  In a way he is like my comfort zone, I feel safe with him. And I don’t think I mean in a lovey dovey way. Maybe he is my soul mate…maybe he is just meant to be my friend. I don’t know. All I know is that he is going to be in my life for a very long time.

            And it has come to my attention that is why I can’t stand his girlfriend, I really don’t know why he is interested in her. But as Barb said she is in his life for a reason, he needed to learn something. I don’t know, but I know that things happen for a reason.

            I decided that I was going to investigate this topic because it has been on my mind for a while. It’s weird to think that one of my best friends in high school may be the person that I am meant to be with, but he might not. Time will only tell.

            My friend Kendra also said that it was like his girlfriend had a competition going with me and I think it’s because I am his closest friend girl. Haha. I thought that she just didn’t like me and that’s why she said mean things in nice ways. It just turns out that, in my opinion, she is threatened by our relationship. Oh well.

I found this site and it said something that made sense to me about spiritual connections; “This means that both people are compatible, and that their inner spirits are harmonious with each other. Because of this, a kinship is started first, followed by deep inner emotional feelings for each other, all because the spirits are harmonious.” (http://www.awakening-intuition.com/SpiritualBonding.html)

“A friend is someone who knows all about you and still loves you.”- Elbert Hubbard

Oops

Sorry, but i know that i have been inconsistant with the days that i have blogged on, and for some reason i thought i was, i dont know why. haha. For now on i will be posting my new posts on wednesdays since that is the day that i have posted the majority of them on.

Really People?

           This week I am going to touch base on a topic that I’m sure people are getting sick of hearing about…Racism. Well I think that some people, not all, are just not getting it. My friend that I mentioned in my previous post, Kendra (http://kendracandraw.blogspot.ca/), a nice Filipino girl that goes to my school, is having problems with her parents as I mentioned. The reason you may ask is the fact that her boyfriend is black, half black but still.

            Now I talked to my family friend, Barb, about this and she said that our spirits choose our parents to learn certain lessons. Maybe her lesson is to stand up for herself, I don’t know.

            But the point is that racism is a huge issue in this multicultural world, and it’s very freakin stupid. It’s the 21 century people, I think that we should pull up our big boy/girl panties and take off the diapers. Stop acting like children and get over it. It’s supposed to be the person’s character that determines the people that like them and that not so much like them, not the color of their skin or the language that they speak that determines that for us.  But unfortunately people just can’t get passed the appearance thing.

            Just think that if you were in a room blindfolded with a whole bunch of people, who would you go to? Take away the first thing that someone judges someone by and actually get to know the person for who they are and not what they look like.

            Please take the time to think about the friends that you choose to surround yourself with. Think of what drawn you to them in the first. I’m sure that their appearance played a role. Believe I know, I’ve seen it, I’ve done and I’m sure that you have too.

            Something that bothers me about this society that we live in is that when talking about different ethnicities and cultures people, and I have done this too, use the turn race. Why? The only real race that I can think is the human race, there are just different cultures within it. Just like other animals. Such as a cheetah and a house cat, technically they are both under the cat family.

"The problem of the twentieth century is the problem of the color-line -- the relation of the darker to the lighter races of men in Asia and Africa, in America and the islands of the sea. It was a phase of this problem that caused the Civil War" -Bois, W. E. B. Du

ProChoice

Today, Monday June 4, during Bio, my friend, Kendra and I were talking about her home situation; you see she is having some trouble with her parents. So we started to talk about judgement and how people can be so judgemental even though many people have these religions that are so heavily based on empathy and sympathy. I just find that, and I’m not saying that it this goes for everyone please don’t be offended it’s just a statement, the most judgement people that I know are the ones that are big Christians. Many of my relatives are Christians and they are very judgemental.

                Anyway back to the story, Kendra and I were talking about being gay and how in the eyes of the Christian church it is a sin. So I told her this story about my grandma and I fighting about this gay guy that I knew. She said, and I quote, “The only time that you should talk to them is if you are trying to fix them.” This statement angered me, I told her, “They don’t need fixing, they’re not broken.” This argument ended quickly, I was being ambushed by these two strong believers in the word of the bible, I walked away there was no point to arguing something that they are too stubborn to even listen to.  It was two years ago or so. My dad high fived me for sticking up for myself. I wasn’t really all that mad at them, I actually respect the fact that they were standing up for their beliefs, but at the same time, they took it too far.

                I find it funny that I haven’t really brought it up in two years and suddenly I found myself talking about it twice in two days.

                Last year, since I go to a catholic school and all, our school priest came and I asked him about the whole being gay is a sin thing, and he told me that, through much deliberation many priests and fathers think that technically being gay is not a sin. Now hear me out, he said that a sin is a conscience decision that people make. Being gay is something that people are born with, a lifestyle, a feeling. My friend did not understand it so this is the way that I explained it.

                Being gay is like something that you’re born with, just like I don’t like meat. Ever since I was little I never liked meat. My taste buds just don’t agree with it. It’s an attraction.

                I’m prochoice. I will stand up for those who don’t have a voice, this is something I believe in, power of choice… and I like to protest for the things that I believe.

                So this time instead of a dream, I am going to end with a quote.

“I [may] not agree with what you have to say, but I'll defend to the death for your right to say it” –Voltaire

                If you have something to add to this topic please add a comment.