No, I Don't Want a Gist

Yes, let us talk about how you think all of our minds are utopian, and that we all have the same intentions.

I am fed up with people insinuating that all of humanity is cruel. With people thinking that everyone has a positive impact in the world. With everyone just assuming it is everybody who does everything. What even is that?

Can we not differentiate ourselves from the evil of the world? From the good? Can we differentiate our loved ones from such ideas?

Yes. Because you have this wholesome bias for yourself and others such as family, significant others, and friends. No that’s not a crime, but can you stop to think that maybe you are accountable for such ideologies or happenings and your neighbor isn’t? That the abuser is responsible and not the environment in which they were raised? That the mother provides for the child but the child does not? Let’s take the mother and child situation. I’ve literally heard words replicating these: “Parents don’t understand their children”. Sure, yours don’t understand you, but can my parents know me like the back of their hands? Why not.

Where does it say that this person can’t recycle till they drop but the next throws their fast food wrappers out their car windows?

My best friend and my sister shared a friend who had this uncontrollable need to disgrace the world, and still has a tendency to. It’s not even about who she is, it’s just her mentality that makes her a direct target regarding generalization and being stuck with this habit.

She had this big main idea that everyone else caused her to feel particular ways or caused her favorite band to not be as popular. Here we go back to a direct quote, one that boggles me.

“Everyone should be treated as an equal, but we are all too afraid, too cowardice even to do what is right”.

YES. Only to one specific part. Everyone should be treated with the same amount of respect. That’s just decency, and that can be argued as well. But to go as far as to implement strong words that an individual shouldn’t throw around like “cowardice” and “afraid”, to describe a population is irrational. I honestly don’t think that a moral could even be stretched out that far. Of course there are societal views and values, but to negatively associate brains that you don’t have an inkling of with a moral is outrageous as well.

I can go as far as to say that I am not afraid to show you respect. I am not afraid to show the person in front of me in a line at the grocery store respect. I am not afraid to show Oprah Winfrey respect, or Marilyn Manson. Or your third cousin’s dog’s previous owner’s great uncle respect. It doesn’t matter who you are, everyone gets a clean slate.

But do I know if the girl I made too much long awkward eye contact with at a county fair thinks that way too? She could be plotting my death merely because I had a purple shirt on. You. Never. Know.

It just doesn’t make sense to staple a label on a group of people and exclude yourself out of it, and a few of your friends out of it as well. Can’t we like everyone and place everyone on the same level until you exceed the line or plunge below it? That’s all that I’m saying. There’s far too many specifications to hate and to love and to association with both emotions. Why cut off the oxygen to that and not try something new and decide things about individuals. You don't have one day to decide your truths and your opinions. They're malleable; with age, with trends, with relationships, and various jobs or opportunities.

Why limit yourself and not talk to people? Why wring out your incredible sponge of a brain of all that it can absorb and just remain at a constant state of blatant negativity or positivity? I’m not like everyone else and so aren’t you. Maybe at one point we share hobbies or solutions, I would gladly appreciate that. But everyone else isn’t unlike or like us either.

So don’t assign anyone to anything. Let us be a unit, but it is not an invitation to attempt to be intellectual by generalizing. For the life of me, our souls are so different and a person must articulate that.

For what is equality if we are all doomed or have no room for improvement?