✰ A Fight Against Society ✰

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

http://thisibelieve.org/essay/6/

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. 

HOW I WRITE

Since I moved here I used to sit down on my green beautiful lawn and wonder about things. One day I came up with the idea of writing down a short story. Ever since that day I have been writing stories there and it is the place I come up with my best stories. My favorite time of the day is sunset and in the summer is better because I can see the mixture of colors collide into a beautiful orange sky that inspires me to write.

There are so especial items that I need to get my writing done. First I need my pink fluffy pen to write with because it is my favorite pen, and I think that it brings me good luck and its makes writing more special than just writing with an old blue or black regular pen. I also need to be in an outside environment where I can only hear the breezy sound of the wind and the quiet birds chirping, this helps me write as well as inspires me. One thing that I need is my lucky charm bracelet, however I lost this bracelet and it was very special to me because it was really old and my grandmother had given it to me and its un-replaceable. It is very important that I have these things because they help me in my writing.


I sometimes get writer’s block when I know that my writing is going to be published and other people are going to read it because you might make some mistakes that you don’t really notice and after you publish it will already be public and you can’t change it. Sadly, I have no way of getting writer’s block, but I don’t get it very often so that’s a good thing.