✰ A Fight Against Society ✰

Non-Fiction Super Smart Note on "A Journey Toward Acceptance and Love" by Greg Chapman

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You see a teenage girl throwing up in the bathroom, a little boy sitting alone wiping his tears away in a corner by the playground, and a college student cutting himself hoping to ease his pain…What has happened? Society. That girl in the bathroom has been bullied since 4^th grade about her weight and now she is faced with extreme eating disorders. The little boy sitting by himself is alone in this world because his mother just died and the man at college is being labeled as “girly”, “stupid”, “pathetic” every day of his life. Although you might have not had this experience, things like this happen every single day around the globe because humans just can’t stop judging each other. This was Greg Chapman’s story. Since he was little he grew up believing that being Christian was the right thing, being a white American made him one of the “better” people,  that there couldn’t be mixing between different races, etc . All of these stereotypes filling his head with ideas almost destroyed him. As he grew older and realized that he was attracted to males, he started to believe God hated him (since the Bible says it is a sin).  But as time went by he started to realize that it shouldn’t matter what others thought of him as long as he loved himself, and now he is proud of himself, successful and a real inspiration. Many people think that our society today won’t change and that there will always be the judging or teasing because we’re human and we are taught to act that way. However, I believe that our society could change any day as long as we take the initiative to do it. We don’t need to insult other people to survive, or to make ourselves feel better because in reality it never helps. Would it make you feel better if you pushed someone over the edge and made them do something crazy? No, I don’t think so. So why even bother? Also, I think that the people that are being bullied should stay strong because you only have one life and it does get better. Because of present day’s society, many people are emotionally damaged and can be hit by depression but I think that with love and hope our world could become a much more peaceful and friendly place for everyone.