School has finally started up and I've been assigned some of my first assignments of the semester. For my educational diversity class I was assigned to watch this 15 minute video before getting to class. I was not expecting to be so inspired by an assignment in my life, as this man Matthew Cooke spoke out on worldly issues to a big audience. Cooke takes problems in the world and minimizes them into small parts and simple ideas and makes you really second guess how you perceive the world and what life is.
This video made me reflect on my whole life, who I am, how I see things, and the way I think. It also made me realize how corrupt we are as a species. God, whoever that may be to the next person, gave us this land and EACH OTHER to discover it, use it, protect it, and love it. But it is in human nature to control other humans to his own liking through control of more humans. Why can't we just love?! (Probably because we judge people along with their beliefs instead of just the belief by itself.) The reason why humans disagree on many things is because there is no proof of a lot of it, and without proof, people will and do believe only their way of thinking is right. I digress...
I used to ask my father very mature questions since a young age such as...Why does the sun travel across the sky? and What are stars? As I grew older and was exposed to things I was blind to as a child these questions became... What are gay people? and Why can't boys wear pink? My dad always answered these questions very liberally which is why I think and feel the way I do towards certain things. Through my exchanges with my father I learned that political views, beliefs, and ideals are passed down from parent to child over and over again. And this made me think... What if parents started to teach their children to accept one another as a whole instead to have a nasty bias towards different religions, races, gender, etc? Is it that hard of a thing to do, to just accept people as they are the same way you are your own self?
Yes, there are things to focus on right now like the 2016 Presidential Election. If you vote for Trump you're a racist, if you vote for Clinton you're a supporter of liars and hypocrites (supposedly). Right now I think the election is just a distraction from real world problems...bigger problems like global warming, racism, war, starvation, clean water, extinction, etc. As a nation, and as earthlings we are all missing the bigger picture here.
The goal of life is not for yourself. It is not to get a job, make money, nor have a family. It is not to survive as a mediocre person in this society that only allows you to be as much as you want to be without money. This life is to learn, build, create, and accept each other in happiness. If we were to kill off all people of other religions than Christianity, we would still find ways to separate one another into different categories regardless of practicing the same religion...the same way we already do with race and gender.
War (in general) is clearly not the answer here (although I do understand it's necessary as a defense mechanism). If only both sides of war would see that and mutually agree to just leave each other alone and let humans live because we all live on THE SAME PLANET. Why are we against each other when we're all we have in this world? I bet if you were thrown onto Jupiter by yourself by extraterrestrials, you wouldn't mind if the first human you bumped into was an Islamic man!
As an US citizen, I feel like a good portion of my country is a bit hypocritical and confusing to understand. Freedom of religion, but discrimination towards most religions other than Christianity and Catholicism. The land of the free...not so much. Better than most, but still not so much.
If we taught our children to accept others the way they are and to love one another, we could save our own well-beings, species, and this planet. If there is a God, although it seems impossible, this is exactly what he would want us to do for ourselves. As my dad always told me that aliens put different people on this earth like their own little board game and said, "Let's see how this goes!"
He's right, those aliens probably look at us as a failed project, leaving us with no other help other than ourselves. Just as a writer would leave a story that wouldn't keep a reader's interest, or an inventor leaving a project to the side because it never seems to work.
It's time to come together as humans, see the bigger picture and unite humanity with the ultimate comfort of world peace. This will not happen at once, and probably will never happen if people are ignorant to all the corruptness in this world. Yes, world peace is very far fetched considering the point we are at today. But it's just something to think about and be aware of.
This article was written to inspire people to realize that peace will just make everything a little better.
I hope you watch the video and are just as inspired as I am.
