Dear Mr. or Mrs. Judgmental Sir or Ma'am,

On behalf of anyone who has ever felt hated based on fallacious or distorted presumptions, I would like to address all of the things that I believe these individuals owe you an apology for.

To start, I'm sorry that somebody made you so insecure and hateful that you are compelled to use profanity and slanderous attacks to justify your invalid and uneducated arguments against other human beings that are just as worthy, upstanding members of society as you are. I'm sorry that you have to feel better than someone else in order to feel adequate, but that's entirely false, and I hope you can be comfortably yourself without it someday. You don't need to be better than anyone to be great.

I'm sorry that you are incapable of distinguishing between what a "good person" is versus what a "bad person" is based on actual case-by-case personal knowledge and instead have to revert to categorizing and false generalizations. I'm sorry that it's so much work to actually hold a genuine conversation with someone before you write them off and deem them unworthy of humane and respectful treatment due to your imaginary stereotypes.

I'm sorry that you feel that your discomfort and unfamiliarity with diversity so significantly surpasses others' rights to live comfortably that you are entitled to treat them poorly or run them out altogether.

I'm sorry that you believe your roots run so deep that you can't move to see any of the other necessary trees that contribute to the air that we all breathe.

But mostly, I'm sorry that the world has to be this way, and I'm sorry that you harbor so much anger that you're missing out on so many astounding people. I am so sorry that you are unknowingly doing yourself such a disservice in enriching your life.

This world will not know equality in its truest form until we can treat each individual as just that, an individual. We have each embarked on a journey that is thoroughly unique from any other's. That goes for any culture, any sexuality, any socioeconomic status, any disability and any spirituality. Like snowflakes, no two are exactly alike.

Don't you see? We are snowflakes.

It is ignorant to say that any group of individuals should be classified as having one lump sum of characteristics, because that's just not true — no matter how much you may want them to be for the justification of not making any attempts to change your narrow ideals.

Everyone says we shouldn't see color as if it has to be deemed a negative connotation that recognizing differences in one another should be ignored. Oh, I see color, all right. I see color that makes up such a beautiful spectrum that the world would be so excruciatingly dull without it. I can see and appreciate every color of my brothers and sisters on this planet and appreciate them for exactly who they are and for the vibrancy that they possess.

So, Mr. or Mrs. Judgmental Sir or Ma'am, if must say you dislike someone, let it be because you do not get along one on one — not simply because they have a different amount of melanin in their skin, identify as a different sex than you, a different view on the afterlife (if any view at all), a different economic background in which they have grown up or because their love story involves two of the same gender rather than two different. If you must be angry, let it be at a situation. Furthermore, let it not taint your entire mindset and views on any "type" of person in particular. It is too easy, and too dangerous, to make sweeping assumptions about what we do not have direct and experiential knowledge about.

A beautiful friend once told me that, since a child, she's learned not to judge any religion because, at the end of the day, we all are ultimately praying to the same God. As different as we are from one another, we all reduce to one common denominator: human. Instead of loathing and judging someone who may appear to be so different than you are, treasure those dissimilarities. Because I promise you, that's absolutely the best part.